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until I escaped when they had a system failure after a blizzard. I don’t hate
    humans but I don’t want to get involved with one. The years I spent locked up made me
    never want to trust your kind again.”
    Shock rolled through her. “You were in a detention center on Earth?”
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    He nodded. “They had a use for me but when they were done I was slated for
    execution within sixty-four days.”
    Hope hit her hard and fast. He’d been detained, which meant he had been subjected
    to the same procedure as the cyborgs her father had guarded. Did he know what they’d
    done to him? Had he gotten reprogrammed? Had the extra chip been removed from his
    brain? Her father said they didn’t tell the cyborgs what had been done to them when they
    processed them into the detention centers for fear that they’d try to operate on each other.
    Her thoughts went into overdrive.
    “Could you please sit down on the bed so we can talk about this?”
    He regarded her uneasily. “You wish to seduce me? It won’t happen. I’m not an
    Earth male.”
    “I wouldn’t dream of doing that,” she flat-out lied. “I’d like to hear more about this
    engineer. I’m scared. Please sit down and at least tell me what you know about him so
    I’m less terrified. I didn’t do anything to you when you were on Earth. I’m too young to
    have been a part of that.”
    He hesitated, studying her, but he finally moved to the bed and sat all the way at the
    bottom, away from her. The bed dipped as the mattress took his impressive weight. He
    took a deep breath and turned his head to look at her. “I am tired but I will answer a few
    of your questions. Go ahead and ask, but do so quickly.”
    Swallowing hard, her heart pounding, she stared into his beautiful eyes. “Are you
    listening to me, Steel?”
    He nodded. “Ask your questions. I will give you five minutes but that is all.”
    Terrified, she blurted out the words her father had told her so many times as a child
    that she’d never forget them. “Spectrum three-three-three-six!”
    Steel opened his mouth, probably to ask her what that meant but then his eyes
    widened as his body went totally limp. Rena lunged for the big cyborg as his body started
    to slump forward. She wanted him on the bed, not on the floor or she’d never get him
    back on the mattress. She grabbed his shoulders and tugged hard, grunting as she fought
    his slack weight but then winning as he fell back toward her, on the bed. As his body
    landed, the bed bounced a little, almost knocking her on top of him.
    She stared down at his closed eyes. “Oh shit. It really worked.”
    Her father had told her that cyborgs had been reprogrammed to shut down for ten
    minutes and he’d given her the code that triggered the defensive program. The chip had
    been added in case they ever tried to revolt, escape, or if a guard was trapped in a room
    with one trying to kill him. Cyborgs were super soldiers and their keepers had been afraid
    they were too damn smart to keep contained, even locked in detention centers, so they’d
    embedded a chip that shut them down when those words were spoken, sending a jolt to
    all their hardware, forcing them to totally reboot.
    She had ten minutes before the big cyborg’s brain came out of shut-down mode and
    she could guess that he was going to be killing mad when he realized what she’d done.
    She released his shoulders and turned her head, staring at the chains wrapped around the
    bed frame. Her gaze returned to Steel.
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    She was in deep shit if this didn’t work but hell, he was giving her away regardless.
    What did she really have to lose? She stood up on the bed, carefully moving around his
    limp body to walk to the posts. Time was ticking away and she had a lot to do.
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Chapter Three
    Worry made Rena bite her lip after more than ten minutes had passed. She checked
    the pulse at his