Cyborg by Kaitlyn O'connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'connor [O'connor, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cyborgs, Sci Fi, Erotic Stories, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Adult, Erotica
ISBN: 9781586086961
Google: 3LswAAAACAAJ
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 2005-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

She was still different and, beyond her mixed feelings about considering forming a family unit, she was still afraid she would never truly fit in. Both Dante and Reese already knew she was different. How long before everyone else realized it, as well? And, once they had, even supposing they decided to allow her to live among them, they would know she was different and she would be able to feel them staring at her where ever she went and know she was being judged, hated for being different.

“We have a standing army. You needn’t give that up if it’s what you want. You would still be allowed to form a family unit.”

Surprise flickered through Amaryllis briefly, but she wasn’t particularly pleased by the information when she’d expected that to settle the matter. She decided to try a different tact.

“You would be more … content with someone who has more interest in forming a family unit than I.”

“One of my own kind, you mean?” he asked in a harsh whisper.

Touchy. She hadn’t realized he would be so touchy about it. The anger in his voice unsettled her and riled her own anger. “I don’t know why you think you want me anyway. You’ve hardly spoken to me in all the time we’ve worked together. Why the sudden interest?”

He was silent so long she’d decided he couldn’t come up with a convincing lie.

“I was … afraid.”

The comment startled her. It also completely caught her attention. “Why?” she asked, genuinely confused.

He seemed to wrestle with himself for several moments. “Could we discuss this when we have no audience?”

He had a point. They didn’t have any privacy, and yet she could hear the others who’d been confined talking. She couldn’t think they had a great deal of interest in her conversation. Finally, she got up and moved to the front of the cell. “Why?” she demanded, pressing her face to the bars so that she could see him in the next cell.

He scrubbed a hand over his face. “It was forbidden.”

Her lips flattened. “Sex was forbidden. We could’ve been friends.”

“I do not want to be your friend,” he said harshly. “And I could not take a chance that I would be tempted to do something that would make them suspicious of me. It seemed … safer to keep my distance.”

Amaryllis frowned. “You were afraid you’d blow your cover? Or that they’d reprimand you with brig time so that you couldn’t spy for the cyborgs?”

“I was afraid they would separate us so that I could not protect you,” he growled irritably. “And….”

Amaryllis didn’t know whether to be insulted or flattered. She supposed she was a little of both. She’d assumed Reese had been so protective because he’d been under orders to watch her closely and she’d resented it.

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