Auxem: A Science Fiction Alien Romance (TerraMates Book 13) by Lisa Lace

Author:Lisa Lace [Lace, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

Amanda stood by the coffee station and fidgeted. The government was happy to provide as much coffee as anyone could drink, and they took advantage of it. Amanda typically preferred hers without caffeine, but she needed a little bit of liquid encouragement this morning. It had been late by the time she finally tumbled into her small, bleak apartment and fallen asleep in front of the television. She needed to be awake and alert today; Dr. Alex Feldman was in the building.

Dr. Feldman had been the original genius behind Cyborg Sector. He had become interested in software programming and the wiring of the human brain when he was a teenager and created the current version of the cyborg operating system while he was in college. When the military approached him about his model, he gladly sold it to them on the condition that he was allowed to head the project.

Nobody else had the experience of Dr. Feldman. He was irreplaceable. Even the highest ranking officers treated him with respect and deference. The other scientists, no matter their stature, scurried about like lab mice when he was around. He never kept regular office hours, and nobody ever said anything about it.

At the moment, the door to Dr. Feldman’s office was open. She watched as he sat behind his desk, blonde hair slicked back over wire-frame glasses. He was far more handsome than any scientist had a right to be. At the moment, he was flicking through files that had landed on his desk while he was gone.

With a shaking hand, Amanda poured an extra cup of joe and marched across the room to his office door. She knocked on the frame. “Need some coffee?”

Dr. Feldman looked up and smiled. “It’s more like battery acid here, but yeah, I’ll take some.” He held out his hand to accept the Styrofoam cup from her hand, and she hoped he wouldn’t notice how much she was trembling. He always made her feel nervous. “Are you going to be working with me on the AI project today? I could use someone who knows what they’re doing.”

Amanda’s stomach leaped into her throat. Did the famous Dr. Feldman want her to work beside him? She was qualified to help him work the bugs out of the artificial intelligence system they were trying to install into the cyborgs, but she didn’t think he knew who she was. Most of the actions performed by the units were sent directly by human military commanders watching from a distance. The goal was to get the cyborgs to a point where they could function autonomously, so they could still be effective even if communications to headquarters were interrupted.

“I’d be delighted,” she replied, trying to keep the thrill out of her voice. He wouldn’t want to be shut in a lab with Amanda all day if he thought of her as a fan girl.

“Great. Let’s get started, then. I don’t feel like sorting through all this paperwork today.”

He stood up from behind his big desk and accompanied her to the control room.

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