The Lady's Cyborg by Candice Gilmer

Author:Candice Gilmer [Gilmer, Candice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flirtation Publishing

11

Kian handed the Ambassador a cup of water.

They had been working to fortify the operations center for the last few hours. Every entry point was locked down, and between the two of them, they created a sensor grid that could see through the bio-blocking shielding the Terrans were wearing. It wasn't perfect, but it was able to give some locations among other bits of data.

If a humanoid came close, they would know.

The count they had was that there were approximately a dozen humanoids, but what species they were, they could not determine.

Though her assessment of the Charro was accurate—there had to be approximately five of them. So that left about seven Terrans.

“I do appreciate this,” Freya said as she accepted the cup.

“The water?” he asked as he took a seat across from her.

She smiled. “The chairs. I appreciate the chairs. You were kind to put them together for me.”

“They were for me as well, as you can see,” he said and smiled at her.

She shook her head. “That is so odd.”

“What is?”

“Your smile.”

“Why?”

“You’re a cyborg. A robot. Why would you smile? You’re supposed to be emotionless automatons.”

One of the many misconceptions about Rhimodians. That they were nothing but machines with a few organic parts. However, the opposite was true. While their programming kept their feelings repressed, it did not make them emotionless. Kian had heard it before. It never failed to irritate him. Usually, his programs kept him from getting angry about it. They worked sometimes.

Today? There were emotions, but they were different. Almost a sadness rather than anger or frustration. This misconception was one of the barriers that they would have to cross to create peace between them and the Terran Empire.

But that was after the negotiations and after a treaty is signed.

One program at a time.

“We are not emotionless. Our organics produce emotions like any humanoid. We have programming that keeps everything in check.” He sipped on his water. “Mostly.”

“Mostly?” she asked and raised her eyebrow. “You must explain ‘mostly’ to me.” There was a twinkle in her eye and an expression of amusement in her tone.

Much better than terror or fear.

He liked that in her. Amusement.

He would like to make sure she looked that way all the time.

It was…

Happy. And how charming she looked.

A lady for certain. Freya’s posture was straight and her shoulders back. Her breasts were round and well-shaped under her dress—very appealing. While she had not put the outer red robes on, the dress she wore was very attractive on her little frame.

And tiny. He had not realized, or perhaps he had not paid attention to, her small frame until they were here. She came to his chin until after she changed her hair, then she barely came to his shoulder. He had not realized so much of her height was the coif piled upon her head.

Small and delicate with a smooth, graceful bone structure, she truly was a beautiful woman. Her eyes were inquisitive, and her skin was much paler than his naturally dark skin.

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