Cyborg Heart : Alien Invasion Romance
By Anna Lewis
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Sometimes being broken makes you come back stronger!
Reilly MacAllister is a scientist that has just made a breakthrough that will change the world forever. To her shock, this makes her a prime target in a sudden, brutal alien invasion of the Earth. With Maksim, a rough-edged, cybernetically-enhanced mercenary to protect her, she must do whatever it takes to escape the rapidly advancing alien forces so she can get her all-important data into the right hands. Can she survive the ruin of America's capital? Is there still a chance to save herself and humanity? And which is truly the greater danger, the inhuman hordes or the fascinating darkness she sees lurking beneath her bodyguard's eyes?
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Cyborg Heart - Anna Lewis
Cyborg Heart
FRIDAY MORNING: BREACH plus one hour
Reilly pressed the cellphone against her ear, the sound of the ringing line seeming so loud, even over the crashing chaos currently tearing her laboratory to scrap. Ring, Ring. Would it hear the phone? Could it? It didn’t seem to have noticed her yet, focused as it was on annihilating her life’s work. Ring, Ring. Dammit Maksim,
Reilly mouthed, not daring to put any sound into the words lest she was noticed. Pick up the damn phone!
Ring... The ringing stopped, and even as the wave of cold relief washed over her mind, a voice began speaking on the other end of the line.
You have reached the residence of Maksim Sokolov,
said a crisp, professional voice with only the slightest Slavic accent. Please leave me your name and phone number...
An answering machine. She was listening to Maksim's landline answering machine! It took everything Reilly had not to start swearing. She gripped the phone very tightly, her lips pressed into a hard line as she fumed with anger. What was she going to do now? Maksim had been her only backup plan, but the damned mercenary hadn't answered her call! What kind of Luddite maniac had a landline anyway? BEEP!
Reilly jumped. She hadn’t realized that Maksim’s pre-recorded voice had stopped speaking. The scrabbling, smashing sounds coming from the far side of the lab ceased, and Reilly held her breath, not daring to speak, sure that the thing out there had heard the phone. But then a moment later, it resumed whatever foul activity it had been focusing on, and the crashing sounds continued. Reilly breathed out a sigh, and then, realizing that the answering machine was still recording, she said, in as loud a whisper as she dared, Maksim, if you’re hearing this, please pick up. Please. I need your help.
Nothing happened. The answering machine continued recording. Reilly gritted her teeth with frustration and made as if to close the phone, but then she was struck with a horrible thought. What if Maksim called back? Would the thing wrecking her lab hear? She could just silence her phone, but what if—
There was a loud rattling sound, and a gruff, winded masculine voice said, Hello?
Reilly blinked. The Slavic accent was much thicker in his voice than usual. Something had his adrenaline up. Reilly?
Not so loud,
she whispered. There’s something in the lab with me.
Maksim didn’t say anything for a moment, and all Reilly could hear was his heavy breathing in the background, and a strange, arrhythmic tapping sound, like metal against wood. "Some-thing is in the lab with you?"
Yes,
Reilly hissed impatiently. It's a long story, but I need you to-
Maksim sighed. Is this ‘thing' man-sized, covered in sticky black shit, with big-ass claws?
What?
Reilly replied, forgetting to stay quiet for a moment. She clamped her teeth together and listened for a second, her heartbeat thundering in her ears. A disturbing crunching sound was coming from the direction of the creature, and it had stopped savaging that side of her lab. She continued, whispering, I didn't get a good look at it. The power went out before it came through.
Maksim groaned. I knew it. I knew you had something to do with this. You all and your damned experiments.
What?
Reilly’s heart started beating again. She was pretty sure she knew what he was about to say next, and it was...not good.
"A...sort of hole opened up in the street outside my building, and these things started coming out. One came out of my bathroom about five minutes ago, while I was eating breakfast. Tried to chew on my head. You called just as I finished putting it down."
Reilly’s skin crawled at the ease with which he said, putting it down.
But then she supposed this was hardly the first time he’d killed something. Or someone. But that wasn’t the important part of what he had said. A portal opened up in the street? How big was it? Was it the only one?
She wanted to ask fifty more questions, but then she remembered the thing crunching away at something on the other side of the lab, and she shut her mouth.
With the tone of someone trying very hard to maintain his calm, Maksim said, It was about twenty feet across and round. Hovered maybe a foot off the ground.
There were rattling sounds, like metal buckles being fastened in the background. Several metallic clicking noises came next, which Reilly thought she recognized from movies. Maksim was checking his guns. After a minute, he said, "Judging from the screaming outside, these holes popped