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    Dark Arsenal
    Dark Arsenal
    Dark Arsenal
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    Dark Arsenal

    By Cynthia Sax

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    A cyborg warrior and a Rebel female’s first mission together might be their last.

    Arsenal considers himself to be a disposable cyborg. He drifts from assignment to assignment, forming no connections to anything or anyone. When the cyborg council requires a warrior for a high-risk mission, Arsenal volunteers. He believes no one will miss him if he dies.
    He doesn’t realize he’s one female’s fantasy.
    The moment Vicuska glimpses Arsenal’s image, she knows he’s the male she wants to spend her last moments in the universe caressing. The Rebel female craves the cyborg’s grim-lipped kisses, desires the touch of his hands, hears his deep voice in her dreams.
    Their mission will end in explosions and death. That is certain if they fail or if they succeed. Whether or not they’ll find love during their dangerous assignment is the unknown.

    Dark Arsenal is a short companion story in the Cyborg Sizzle series and is meant to be read after Taking Vengeance.
    It is also a Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes violent universe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCynthia Sax
    Release dateNov 29, 2018
    ISBN9781987971231
    Dark Arsenal
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    Cynthia Sax

    Cynthia Sax lives in a world filled with magic and romance. Although her heroes may not always say, “I love you,” they will do anything for the women they adore. They live passionately. They play hard. They love the same women forever. Cynthia has loved the same wonderful man forever. Her supportive hubby offers himself up to the joys and pains of research while they travel the world together, meeting fascinating people and finding inspiration in exotic places such as Istanbul, Bali, and Chicago.

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      Dark Arsenal - Cynthia Sax

      Dark Arsenal

      Cynthia Sax

      A cyborg warrior and a Rebel female’s first mission together might be their last.

      Arsenal considers himself to be a disposable cyborg. He drifts from assignment to assignment, forming no connections to anything or anyone. When the cyborg council requires a warrior for a high-risk mission, Arsenal volunteers. He believes no one will miss him if he dies.

      He doesn’t realize he’s one female’s fantasy.

      The moment Vicuska glimpses Arsenal’s image, she knows he’s the male she wants to spend her last moments in the universe caressing. The Rebel female craves the cyborg’s grim-lipped kisses, desires the touch of his hands, hears his deep voice in her dreams.

      Their mission will end in explosions and death. That is certain if they fail or if they succeed. Whether or not they’ll find love during their dangerous assignment is the unknown.

      * * *

      Dark Arsenal is a short companion story in the Cyborg Sizzle series and is meant to be read after Taking Vengeance.

      It is also a Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes violent universe.

      Dark Arsenal

      Published by Cynthia Sax at Smashwords

      Copyright 2018 Cynthia Sax

      Ebook design by Mark's Ebook Formatting

      Cover Design by Amanda Kelsey at Razzle Dazzle Design

      Discover more books by Cynthia Sax at her website

      www.CynthiaSax.com

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this story are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      First edition: December 2018

      For more information contact Cynthia Sax at

      www.CynthiaSax.com

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Other Books by Cynthia Sax

      Dark Thoughts - Excerpt

      About The Author

      Chapter One

      Arsenal was disposable.

      The K Model had been taught that lesson by his Humanoid Alliance manufacturers. They had decommissioned all of his closest friends during training, citing them as being defective. Their sole malfunction had been hesitating before killing the wide-eyed offspring the Humanoid Alliance had deemed to be lawbreakers.

      His opponent had been a mature male. That was the only reason he had survived.

      After the mass cyborg rebellion, he had drifted from assignment to assignment, going where he was needed, forming few attachments. More-fortunate K Models had located their females, produced offspring, developed connections. He remained alone.

      He was a replaceable warrior and he had embraced that.

      When the cyborg council approached him about a possibly lifespan-ending mission, he’d accepted it without hesitation. He had been instructed to rendezvous with a being on the Reckless, a cyborg warship. At a designated time, he would be told the task he had to complete.

      That designated time was now. He strode into the warship’s secondary docking bay. The space had fewer ships than expected stored in it. The only being his lifeform scan detected was Vector.

      The captain of the Reckless faced an empty section of the docking bay. He was alone, which was unusual. When Arsenal had previously met with the C model, the warrior had been accompanied by his human female and his offspring.

      Was the captain expecting trouble? Arsenal stood beside him with one of his hands curved around the handle of a gun. He drifted his other hand to the dagger strapped to his side.

      Unlike him, the blade was unique. The weapon was one of a kind, perfectly balanced, exquisitely engraved with fantastical images of ships and planets, sported his model number.

      Received as a gift from another warrior and his female, it was Arsenal’s most valuable possession.

      He’d use it to kill if there was a threat.

      Your Rebel contact is approaching my ship. Vector sent him an image of the vessel. She’s flying a Humanoid Alliance shuttle craft. It has been modified. Those scans were transmitted to him also. The engines have been upgraded, increasing its speed, and guns were added to the exterior.

      She’s flying. Arsenal’s processors whirled. The Rebel was a female. Females were precious. Only fools put them at risk.

      She must be coordinating the mission, not participating in it.

      He wouldn’t be partnering with anyone. His shoulders lowered, relief filling him.

      The Rebels consisted of humans and humanoids. Purely organic and products of natural evolution, they weren’t designed for fighting as cyborgs had been. They tended to be sloppy, slow, weak.

      He’d rather complete the mission alone than fight alongside one of them.

      I cleared the docking bay of all other warriors. Vector widened his stance as though he anticipated an attack. The cyborg council told me a vessel was arriving. They didn’t elaborate on what that vessel was. Disgust edged his voice. "If she hadn’t been female, I would have blown up her shuttle craft. No one aligned with the Humanoid Alliance will ever enter my warship."

      Every cyborg, including Arsenal, hated their manufacturers—the Humanoid Alliance. The humans, all males and all brutal beings, had tortured the cyborgs, enslaved them, continued to hunt them.

      Is there any other information I should have? The C Model glanced at him, his face hard. "I’m responsible for everyone on board my warship. I won’t put my warriors, my son,

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