Shockball by S.L. Viehl

Author:S.L. Viehl [Viehl, S.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101563427
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2001-11-01T05:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

Consanguinity

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Not To Be Trusted

Everything I had never understood about my creator for the last twenty-nine years abruptly snapped into stunning, nauseating clarity. I must have sat there in silence for a full five minutes as I saw my entire existence turn upside down.

He’d made me to be his wife.

I’d misjudged the motives behind everything he’d done. He’d programmed me genetically. He’d taught me to obey him. he’d isolated me from other men. He’d convinced me to take up his profession. He’d instilled in me some, if not all, of the values he held sacred.

Not because he’d wanted to be a good father.

When I’d left him, he let me go only so far. He had allowed me my alien experience on K-2, to test my immune system and to instill in me the hatred of non-humans he had. Only it had gone all wrong. I’d become fascinated with aliens. I’d even fallen in love with one. I’d refused to come back to him.

Of course he’d come after me with a vengeance. Not because he was being a good father, or he considered me a lab rat.

He’d made himself a mate, and he wanted her back. Panic set in. I shoved my chair back away from the table and got up. “You’re sick.”

He came after me. Slowly, with great poise and dignity.

“I have been training you to take your place at my side since you were born. You are an accomplished surgeon who can understand and share in my work. You have been brought up to appreciate the finer aspects of Terran existence, unsullied by alien cultural pollutants. You were physically engineered to be an attractive female and a highly responsive partner.”

He’d tinkered with that? “Stop. Stay away from me.”

He did stop. “I designed you to be the perfect woman for me. This is your destiny, Cherijo.”

“You made me so you could mate with yourself,” I said, and saw him extend a hand. “Don’t touch me. Unless you want to pull back a bloody stump.”

“Think of what we will do together.” He smiled a little as he watched my face. “As husband and wife, we will produce the children who will chart the genetic future of the human race. We will continue my research and resolve the threat to our way of life. It will be an incredible journey for both of us.”

He was completely insane. “Incest is still against the law.”

“You’re not my daughter, or my sister. Only a sentient being qualifies as such, under Terran law.”

“So you made sure I wouldn’t meet the specifications.”

“Naturally, there will be no officially recognized union between us. I have no need for the bonds of marriage. You are my property.”

“Your own little brood mare.”

“You cannot become pregnant with an alien’s child. Only a Terran can breed with you. That is why the World Government consented to my proposal thirty years ago. You and I will have children who cannot be corrupted by alien DNA. Their children, like you, will be unable to crossbreed, thus preserving our heritage forever.

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