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Cyborg
Erotic Futuristic Romance
Cyborg
By Kaitlyn O'Connor
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Cyborg
by Kaitlyn O'Connor
New Concepts Publishing
Copyright ©2005 by Kaitlyn O'Connor
First published by New Concepts Publishing,
February 2005
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Cyborg
by Kaitlyn O'Connor
CYBORG
BY
KAITLYN O'CONNOR
© copyright February 2005 by Kaitlyn O'Connor
Cover Art by Jenny Dixon, © copyright February 2005
ISBN 1-58608-582-4
New Concepts Publishing
Lake Park, GA 31636
www.newconceptspublishing.com
This is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and places are
of the author's imagination and not to be confused with fact.
Any resemblance to living persons or events is merely
coincidence.
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Cyborg
by Kaitlyn O'Connor
Chapter One
"I've got a bad feeling about this mission," Johnson VH571
muttered to no one in particular as the ship began to buck
upon entering the atmosphere of the planet below them.
Amaryllis VH600's gut clenched reflexively at the
comment. She'd been having bad vibes from the moment she
and her partner had joined the mission in progress at the
TM20 way station. The Company had indicated that the
assignment would be a 'piece of cake', but they had a way of
understating most of the operations they sent their hunters
out on.
This one stank of disaster waiting to happen and she
doubted that she and Johnson were the only ones to think so.
To be completely fair, though, there were a number of
factors that could account for the sense of impending doom
that had nothing to do with precognition or even logical
assumptions based on previous operations.
She was a seasoned soldier. She'd been on almost a dozen
missions, most of them complete successes, but she still had
pre-battle jitters every time she participated in a new
operation, and this one promised to be something major,
unlike any undertaking she'd taken part in before. That was
enough to make her uneasy in and of itself.
Beyond that, the story The Company had cooked up
reeked of fabrication, and not just because their main
objective was to capture one of their own—if possible—and
eliminate her if necessary.
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Dalia VH570 was one of their best cyborg hunters. It not
only didn't make sense that she'd gone rogue and joined 'the
enemy'—why would a human join forces with machines?—but,
assuming The Company wasn't lying and she had, why the
order to capture her if possible? What made her more
important than the rogues themselves, important enough to
put together three squads of hunters in such a haphazard,
poorly planned mission?
Because misery was almost certainly one of the reasons
everyone, including her, was so antsy. Discomfort went with
the territory. As a soldier, she'd endured her share of it, but
she wasn't accustomed to being packed into a vessel
designed for eight with sixteen other hunters like a food cube
in a package of vacuum sealed rations.
According to The Company, the break in security had been
unanticipated, which explained to an extent why they hadn't
had a lot of time for preparations. The cyborgs, who'd either
captured Dalia, or snatched her from beneath The Company's
nose, were traveling in a short range racer and she supposed
it only made sense to launch a chase in similar crafts, built for
speed rather than distance and capacity.
Contrary to all logic, however, the cyborgs had gone deep
space and they'd had, perforce, to follow or risk losing sight
of the quarry all together.
The end result had been three days of very little food,
water, or sleep and she, for one, was cranky with the lack of
all three. With so many of them packed into one small craft,
they'd had to rotate use of the two small cabins the ship
boasted—which meant she'd had a grand total of twelve
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