Star Navigator by Naomi Lucas

Author:Naomi Lucas [Lucas, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Naomi Lucas
Published: 2017-02-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen:

Time was up. The unprecedented warp had fast-forwarded the mission, and Antix was less than two Earth days away.

Atlas looked down at his semi-living shell, a flesh vegetable filled with priceless metal, cybernetic material, and his entire biological being. A vessel that was still alive but without a sentient conscience or a bot without a motherboard. A breathing zombie without a mind. One who didn’t feed off the flesh of the living but instead fed off the electricity siphoned from its static nanocells.

Because my mind has been stuck in the network.

A place where he should have been lost, a nightmare where he had gone insane for a time, but he had found himself and transcended to conquer his new world because he had been born to fight, to battle, and most of all to win. Atlas had been created to win. Win.

He had conquered his humanoid, biological side while trapped in a place devoid of humanity; he had evolved. That’s what Cyborgs did.

Atlas stared down at his body.

But we don’t always win. He briefly thought of Reina and enjoyed the strange surge of power that flowed through him whenever she entered his thoughts. It was an exhilarating, fluttering feeling that brought him closer to being alive than he had been in his long years in the dark.

She was beautiful, fresh, and pure, a new being who willingly joined him in his prison. He would never let her go, not anymore. If he could not win the fight to reclaim his body and in turn, stake his claim on hers, he would imprison her with him in the network and claim her there. The ship would be her prison. If he had to, he would revert to his previous plan and seize control.

Atlas never thought of himself as a good guy; intrinsically, a battle-born man could never be good. But he knew he was rational, sometimes honorable, and above all he had integrity.

I also have wants and my wants are the strongest force ruling my mind. I want Reina. I want her powerless under me and under my control. I want to sink into her flesh like a man, I want to mount her like an animal, and I want to control her like a Cyborg.

He also wanted her to find her self-worth most of all, to be there when she fully realized her strength, and to watch as she battled her own inner demons–and won. He wanted to be there when her fears fell away and nothing remained but the queen she was born to be.

His attention abruptly shifted back to his current predicament as Yesne changed out an IV bag that fed into the cryostasis pod, most likely filled with immunosuppressant drugs, kicked up with nanotechnology and electrodes to ease the procedure. It fed in where his body was still attached to the static machinery.

His chest was cracked open, sliced and cut like fresh meat to reveal the inner workings of his torso. Where his ribs should have

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