Chaos Croc (Cyborg Shifters Book 6) by Naomi Lucas

Author:Naomi Lucas [Lucas, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Blood soaked his back and ran in rivulets down his body. Zeph had to get away before he did something he’d forever regret. Visions of Rylie’s begging and Quinten’s tired eyes filled his head. He growled as they replayed over, and over, and over again. He strode through the passageways of his ship toward the armory. The smell of copper followed him.

When the armory’s door zipped closed behind him, he bellowed at the top of his lungs and ripped off his uniform. He beat the walls and sliced through the aluminum grates, his body trying and failing again and again to shift.

Zeph dropped to his knees, reached behind him, and felt the jagged spikes across his upper back. They’d pierced through his skin despite his will to stop it from happening. His skin was supposed to shift with it and pull into his interior frame, but when he tried, it tore apart instead. The malfunction sizzled his insides and sent his nanocells into overdrive. They attacked him as much as they tried to neutralize the pain.

Someone pounded on the door.

“Zeph, let me in,” Janet called, voice muffled.

“Go away,” he snapped loud enough for her to hear. The floor was slippery with his blood, and he sure as hell didn’t want Janet to see it. Or him.

“There’s a trail of blood all the way from the lab!”

Fuck.

He peered down at his hands. They were a deep chrome silver. His arms were the same, and so were his chest and legs.

“Go make sure Lily is okay,” he gritted.

“Mr. Heartface took her to the room. If you don’t let me in right now, I’m going to wait right here until you come out. Do not test me!”

He looked at the door and swallowed, his gaze briefly clouding over as hundreds of scenes of him and Hector flashed within his mind. Please. Not now.

Hector loaded the tranq gun with fresh darts and attached it to his arm. “Ready for this?”

“Ready as ever.” Zeph checked the buckles of his field gear and paired the suit with his internal tech. He stretched and loosened the fitting around his joints. “Let’s just get this over with.”

They were on their last retrieval mission of the season and had a full menagerie of acquisitions to drop off at the EPED base outside Earth’s moon. His gaze roved over the many sleeping creatures that had come from across the galaxy. Most were plants, but there were a few larger beasts in their hold.

Hector headed for the hull while Zeph handed over the reins to the lab to one their androids. He followed Hector shortly after, scanning the environment outside their ship.

They stepped into the exit chamber together and recalibrated their bodies to the local environment.

“Let’s take the one south of us. The other is in a gorge farther east, and I really don’t feel like hauling a sleeping body out of it,” Hector said, flicking his visor down.

Zeph snapped his teeth and grinned. “We both know I’ll be the one doing the lugging.

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