Being Green (Cyborg Sizzle Book 5) by Cynthia Sax Read Free Book Online Page B

concern, his energy-infused blue eyes glowing. “You’re not gone.”
    How was that possible?
    She lifted her gaze skyward. “But the ship departed. I saw it ascend.” She glanced at him. She hadn’t imagined him. He remained on Earth Minor, standing before her. “Why are you here?”
    His forehead wrinkled. “You’re here. Windy is here. Where else would I be?”
    She brushed her fingers over her moist cheeks. “Your friends approached you, needing your help.”
    “My friends didn’t require my help. They were concerned that their extended absence might put our homeland at risk.” Green grasped her shoulders and pulled her upward, gliding her body along his. “We’ll no longer have access to our ship’s monitoring of the surrounding space. We won’t know if a threat approaches our planet.”
    “Our planet?” She was confused. Which planet was he referring to?
    “Earth Minor.” Red bloomed across his cheekbones. “I’m aware that I should have discussed this with you, my female. I was waiting for the proper time. But Barrel and Zip want to claim your planet also.”
    “They want to live here?”
    He nodded. “They have an emotional bond with Windy, with me, and now with you. When they find their females, they plan to build their own domiciles and raise their offspring here.”
    They’d choose isolation also. She looked around her at the greenery, the blue sky, the bees buzzing from flower to flower, letting this new vision of the future sink into her mind.
    Green hadn’t left her. He was here. And his friends would return, perhaps with females. They’d live close, visit often, be part of their lives.
    That future wasn’t dark or frightening. It felt good, right.
    “Zip claims the planet can sustain the additional beings.”
    “It can,” she confirmed.
    Another silence stretched.
    “What are your thoughts, my female?” Green grasped her hands. “Your happiness is my number one priority. If you want the planet to remain ours alone, I’ll tell them to settle somewhere else.”
    “You’d do that?” She tilted her head back and gazed up at him. “You’d choose me over your friends, males whom you’ve fought with, escaped with?”
    “You’re my female,” he said that as though it explained everything. “I would do anything for you. I’d die for you.”
    His cyborg meant every word he said. Anything she asked of him, he’d do. His power was hers. Warmth spread across her chest. “I love you.”
    Energy surged in his eyes, lighting them a brilliant blue. “You love me?”
    “I love you.” She smiled. “I’ve loved you for planet rotations, but I was scared to say the words, to believe.” She cupped his face, her fingers golden against his gray skin. “Then I thought you were leaving me and that scared me even more.”
    “I’d never leave you.” He turned his head, pressed a kiss in the center of her palms, his lips firm. “Parting from you would be like parting from my arm or my processors. You’re a piece of me, essential for me to function, required for my soul’s peace, my heart’s beating, my—”
    She pressed her breasts against his chest and he stopped talking, his body hardening, his muscles flexing. Shelby grinned. He wanted her. She rolled her hips, brushing them against his.
    “My Shelby.” Green swooped downward, captured her lips. She gasped, surprised by his enthusiasm and he filled her mouth with his tongue, taste, nanocybotics.
    This was what she craved—his kiss, his touch, the feel of his body against hers. She pushed closer to him, cradling his tongue with hers. He threaded his fingers through her messy curls, holding her tight.
    Her parents, much loved and never to be forgotten, had once planned a great future for her, the stewardship of two prosperous agri lots, the joining of two families, a lifetime with a boy every being liked and who she considered her best friend.
    After that had been taken from her, she’d thought there was nothing left. She