Lunara Station Box Set (Books 1-3): A space opera adventure series by Clara Woods

Author:Clara Woods [Woods, Clara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2020-05-20T22:00:00+00:00

23 Who’s Cassius?

Lenah and Cassius were alone in the common room where Lenah was heating instant meals for them both. She was getting that date after all, she thought to herself, trying not to outright grin at Cassius who was sitting at the table, wiping his implanted arm with a blue cloth. Not the most romantic, but it was also going to be their last meal before reaching Astur and her home—her former home.

The heating unit beeped, and Lenah pulled out the two meals, setting one in front of Cassius and the other one opposite him.

Their eyes locked briefly, before he nodded his thanks and put the cloth aside.

“Are you glad you have them?” Lenah asked as they both started to eat. He didn’t pretend not to know what she was asking about.

“Yes, and no.”

“They do make you strong, and you hardly have to worry about anyone.”

He looked at her, curious. “I’m not sure if that’s true. Sure, I’ll be able to best almost anyone in a fight. Not just best them, I could easily do much more than that. But that’s also all that people ever see…” he trailed off, staring down at his arm.

Lenah put her spoon down, feeling guilty. A cyborg was all she had seen in him a few weeks ago. Though that had also been because he happened to kidnap her and the others and not given his name.

“I see more than a cyborg,” she whispered, looking away from his implants and into his green eyes. Did he know that she had fallen under exactly the prejudice he’d described for probably more than half of their relationship? Was he going to think less of her now?

“So, it seems,” he grinned, and it was obvious that he was again thinking back to the image of her sparsely dressed figure entering his cabin.

“Dating has been tough. Usually, women are not interested in a cyborg.” Cassius continued more somberly. “It’s been a thing in the past.”

“A thing?”

Cassius squared his jaw. He seemed very serious about it, so Lenah decided to be too. Besides, she could identify with the other women. She didn’t think anyone liked snuggling up to metal bits. She didn’t particularly like them either, but the rest of him more than made up for it. There was even some beauty in how the strings of almost black c-nano fibers connected to his skin at the shoulder. It made for quite a contrast to his much brighter skin, almost like an intricate tattoo.

She reached out toward his metal arm that was still sitting on the table and grasped his hand. She had seen him do almost everything with that hand, be it mundane tasks like lifting a cup of tea to ripping things apart in a display of superhuman strength. Now she decided that she would not be scared of its power and how it could crush her. There was a big difference between could and would.

At her gesture, Cassius’s face brightened, and his eyes flickered to her face.

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