Jumping Barrel

By Cynthia Sax

He requires an Expert. She needs a hero.

Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.

Nola wants the role Barrel is offering so badly she bends a few truths. Yes, she was born off planet but she has lived almost all of her lifespan in sheltered Academies. Yes, she has learned Tau Cetian but she has never spoken with a local. Yes, she plans to follow the rules but his deep, sexy voice tempts her to rebel.

When a fact-morphing human academic meets her battle-worn cyborg warrior, deceptions are revealed, passions flare, and circuits sizzle. Wrong seems right. Lies turn into truth. The candidate least qualified for the role becomes the one candidate Barrel can’t let go.

Jumping Barrel is a short companion story in the Cyborg Sizzle series and is meant to be read after Releasing Rage, Breathing Vapor and Crash And Burn.
It is also a BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cynthia Sax
• Release date: Nov 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781987971101

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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Jumping Barrel

Cynthia Sax

He requires an Expert. She needs a hero.

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Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.

Nola wants the role Barrel is offering so badly she bends a few truths. Yes, she was born off planet but she has lived almost all of her lifespan in sheltered Academies. Yes, she has learned Tau Cetian but she has never spoken with a local. Yes, she plans to follow the rules but his deep, sexy voice tempts her to rebel.

When a fact-morphing human academic meets her battle-worn cyborg warrior, deceptions are revealed, passions flare, and circuits sizzle. Wrong seems right. Lies turn into truth. The candidate least qualified for the role becomes the one candidate Barrel can’t let go.

Jumping Barrel

Published by Cynthia Sax at Smashwords

Copyright 2016 Cynthia Sax

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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 2016

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

About The Author

Chapter One

Stand straight, warriors. Barrel gazed at the upturned faces with pride. It had taken him and his males sixteen planet rotations of intense training but all of the offspring now lined up properly.

All of the offspring except one.

Ka-Na sat on the grass, picking ancient-Earth daisies, the sun shining on her brown curly hair. The little Tau Cetian female cooed happily, smiling, in a world of her own, her brown-and-green striped feet bare.

Barrel didn’t have the emotional strength to reprimand her.

Perfection was required of cyborgs. Some of his brethren had been decommissioned for minor malfunctions, killed because they were defective.

He had come to accept that perfection wasn’t always possible with not-yet-matured humanoids, especially with special humanoids like Ka-Na.

She was different from the others, her eyes pale pink instead of the brown normal for her kind. A vertical crease was located in the center of her forehead. She’d been manufactured that way. No medic or transfer of nanocybotics could repair her damage.

He’d tried.

We have guest trainers this planet rotation, he announced to the offspring.

Bare. Bare. Ka-Na giggled and reached out to him. Barrel forced a frown, stifling the urge to pick her up, cuddle her close to him. The female, her spirits not at all dampened, laughed louder, calling to him.

Uncle Intrepid and some of his males have crafted wooden swords for you. He continued, his expression as stern as he could manage. They’ll teach you how to utilize them.

The offspring chattered excitedly, breaking formation.

Barrel nodded to the cyborg and stepped to the side.

There’s a great probability that this exercise will be disastrous, Zip, his friend,