Rogue Cyborg by Grace Goodwin

Author:Grace Goodwin [Goodwin, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grace Goodwin

Gwen

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I couldn’t see a damn thing… but I could hear them. The Hive. In my head. The subtle vibration of multiple high-ranking Hive Soldiers moving over my flesh, under my skin, like the subtle stroking of a thousand mosquitos’ wings hovering over my body, ready to bite. The Hive hadn’t given me this technology to use against them, but that’s exactly what I was doing now.

They were here. Somewhere. And I had to find them, kill them, before they could hurt Mak again.

When I’d been a prisoner, I’d vowed to fight them until there was nothing left of me. I’d hunt and kill the Hive with my dying breath. But that was my choice. Not Mak’s.

All he wanted was his freedom. To get away from all this madness and forget, go back to his old life. To just… fly away.

I couldn’t do that, but he could. And I could help him. If I could take out the Hive communications center before he caught sight of them, the deed would be done. He’d be free, and he’d never have to face them again. He wouldn’t have to look one of them in the eye and remember what they’d done to him.

It wasn’t much, but it was all I could do to help. And I wanted to do something, to know I’d given him a gift, taken care of him in some small way. He might be the one wearing the bossy pants, but I could be in charge here, get shit done. For him.

The urge to protect him was stupid, and territorial, and didn’t make any sense, but my heart didn’t care. I needed to do this for him. One last thing.

“Gwen, stop. Wait for me. Don’t be foolish.” Mak’s order was easy to ignore.

I ran toward the buzzing, the almost imperceptible hum of my old tormentors. The signal wasn’t exactly like I remembered, but then, the specific Nexus Unit that had worked on me, tortured me and began the integrations, who’d made me part of his Hive mind, was far from here in another sector of the galaxy. The Hive Soldiers who were here on the moon must be under the dominion of another Nexus Unit.

Not mine. They called him Nexus 2.

I would never forget it. He’d told me his name as he worked on me, tortured me, changed me to his liking. His real name.

He’d wanted me to stay. To be his.

To have his children.

To be his queen.

My stomach churned as I ran toward my past, the horror of those weeks spent in thrall of Nexus 2, fighting the dark depths of his mind, the hypnotic pull of his dark eyes on my emotions. He wasn’t like the others the Coalition fought and killed every day. He was an alien race. His skin the darkest blue. His eyes like the black inky depths of a great white shark back on Earth. There was nothing human in those eyes or in his touch. He wasn’t a drone, wasn’t

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