Containing Malice by Cynthia Sax

Author:Cynthia Sax [Sax, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cynthia Sax

Chapter Eleven

Illona adored her cyborg’s friend. Valor had been confined to a sleeping support for solar cycles, long before she had met him. His arms and legs had been detached.

Yet he had maintained a sense of humor and was one of the biggest flirts she’d ever encountered.

“Ahhhh…that feels nice.” He grinned at her as she extracted the tracking device from one of his arms.

“You can’t feel anything.” She smiled back at him. He was no longer feeling the pain of being shocked. She’d deactivated the sleeping support. “Your arms haven’t yet been reattached.”

The tracking device in his back had been removed. The explosive had also been taken out of his chin.

She’d set it by the door, as far away from them as possible. Her gaze shifted to that spot in the chamber. She didn’t trust it not to detonate.

“My limbs have been detached for six solar cycles, seventy-two planet rotations, and one shift.” He had noted the exact time he’d lost use of his arms and legs, and that telling detail tugged at her heart. “There is a high probability they won’t be functional.”

“They’re functional.” She hadn’t been allowed to reattach them. The Humanoid Alliance had forbidden that. But she had scanned them. Multiple times. “I haven't yet figured out how to re-cover them with skin and flesh, but they are functional.”

The nanocybotics booster might accomplish that feat, but the odds of that happening were too slim to mention yet to the E Model. She didn’t want to lift his hopes, only to dash them again.

That would be torture. Her lips twisted. Despite what Malice believed, she didn’t enjoy tormenting other beings.

“I’ll never be as good-looking as Malice is.” Valor winked at her. “I won’t have pretty little human medics swooning all over me.”

“If you’re referring to me, I don’t swoon over anyone.” She extracted the tracking device, set it on the sleeping support beside him, and moved to his other arm. “And I’ve seen Malice in that state.” That had been one of the cruel experiments the Humanoid Alliance insisted she lead. It had required removing all his skin and flesh down to his frame. “If I was predisposed to swooning over him, which I’m not—” She lifted her right index finger. “—I would have still swooned over him when his mechanics were visible.”

He had been very shiny…and intriguingly smooth.

She rubbed her fabric-covered thighs together. They couldn’t have fucked, not in any traditional way, but that would have felt…interesting against her skin.

Her pussy dripped and her face heated with shame.

What was she doing? She was a medic, damn it. She shouldn’t be thinking arousing thoughts like that, not while she was tending to a patient.

Valor, that patient, her cyborg’s friend, had tilted his head to the side, was studying her. “Are you proposing a human female could desire me as much as you desire Malice?”

Illona’s cheeks approached the surface temperature of a sun. “I’m stating that there will be human females who desire you. That’s a certainty. I’m not saying I desire your friend.

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