C791 by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais [Langlais, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780986915482
Publisher: Eve Langlais
Published: 2012-02-13T08:44:05+00:00

Chapter Six

The voyage to the asteroid outpost took several days, not that Chloe took note or cared. Joe kept her entertained both in bed and out. In the bedroom, he made her scream in pleasure; outside of it, she made him groan as she taught him how to act more human because, despite his capture and the new worrisome bug, Joe was determined to go back and resume the search for secrets on the cyborgs’ creation.

“Aren’t you afraid of getting caught again?”

His arched brow spoke eloquently of what he thought of her query.

“Don’t give me that look. Did Seth teach you that?”

His pleased grin dropped when he mumbled, “Maybe.”

“Seriously though. I know you had them dancing your tune when we met. And with reason. But, they’re going to learn from their mistakes. You might not get away so easily next time.”

“But without taking any risks, we won’t get any answers.”

“What exactly are you looking for? What’s so important you would risk your life to discover it?”

Leaning back in his seat, his eyes took on a faraway cast, and when he spoke, she wasn’t sure if spoke so much to her as himself.

“When I woke after the EMP pulses on Gamma 15, I woke not knowing who I was. I followed orders because it seemed easiest and tried to understand why, suddenly, the world appeared so strange around me. And yet at the same time, so familiar. I watched. I listened. I heard a lot of things said about cyborgs, most of them derogatory. But none of them explained how I’d become part machine. Who I was.

“I needed to know but couldn’t find out while I was a slave. Then, I overheard the order to kill us, to march us out into space like useless garbage. As Seth would say, I flipped my lid.” When he would have paused, she waved him on, fascinated at his story. “After the rebellion, I fled with the brothers who survived. We roamed the stars in search of a place to call our own. We found one and began to build, but one question kept cropping up. Not just with our group either. In some paradox of circumstance, we found others like us and they asked the same thing. Why? Why was this done to us? Who dared? I wanted an answer so I, and a chosen few, began raiding military establishments. Mostly space ones where we’d spent most of our time in servitude. We discovered nothing we didn’t already know. So we widened our search. On some planets with human outposts and settlements, we found others who’d woken and freed their brethren. They shared our curiosity and gave us more questions too.”

“And so you kept looking for answers?”

“Actually, at some point, as we progressed in our mental liberation, we came to understand why they did it. It turned out to be really quite simple. The military did it because they think themselves above the laws humans created.”

“No one is above the law,” she stated.

He arched a brow.

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