Thank you to those who stopped by last week. I’m glad for a new Sunday and a new Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sundays. I am continuing with The Scent of Memory. In this scene, Marisol and Cap talk for the first time since he arrived at the hospital. I am also thrilled to announce that The Scent of Memory has been nominated to be book of the month over at the TBR Pile. If you have a second, I would appreciate you heading over there and voting for it. Thanks for considering it.
“Explain your interest in me?” He turned off his scent sensors to prevent himself from being sucked into the pungent turbulence of emotions spilling out in her aroma.
“We were to be married.” The gentle emotion vibrating in her voice stroked his remaining flesh like a caress. He shook it off. It was dangerous.
“Was it arranged?”
“No, we chose each other. We were living together when you were killed – abducted – after a mining accident.”
“We were intimate?” Heat roared through him. He shut it down reluctantly. He was starting to like the way he felt around her.
“You have no memories of me? Of us?” She blinked rapidly to force tears threatening to spill.
He shook his head. “Cybercorp wipes our long-term memories. Periodically, a memory fragment may surface, but our systems are programmed to shut down if that occurs. If a cyborg suffers from too many of these recalls, he is decommissioned.”
“That’s brutal.”
“We’re brutal. You’d be wise to remember that.”
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The Scent of Memory Blurb
Twelve years ago, Marisol lost Aren. Now he’s back – pointing a gun at her head and treating her like a stranger.
Rebel hacker, Marisol Martinez, never thought volunteering to keep the hospital safe from cyborgs would lead her back to the man sabotage ripped from her arms. The man she swore to avenge by any means possible.
For over a decade, Cap protected the cyborgs under his command from every danger. Until he meets an insurgent, whose scent wreaks havoc on his control. She calls him Aren and insists she knows him. But she’s wrong. He has no past, no present, no future – only orders he’s programmed to complete.
Forced together, Marisol and Cap can’t resist the passion that keeps building between them. With time running out, Marisol must use her computer skills to restore Aren’s memories or Cap will kill all subversives on the planet – starting with her.
Oh! – he’s starting to remember her. Can’t wait to find out more.
That would be hard to be in front of him, yet hear he has no memory of you.
That was intense.
He was certainly treated brutally since they blocked his memories. But she has arouses some feeling in him – a good sign.
Sounds like his human side is already making a comeback. Great snippet!
He’s interested even as he struggles with why. Very intense.
This situation is bound to be rough on both of them.
Voted! I enjoyed the snippet, very poignant. He’s in for some surprises ahead!
I feel so bad for them. It must be horrible to have your memory erased. Great snippet!
This is a truly tragic moment — and it makes me feel that the cyborg program is fundamentally immoral.
I feel sorry for them both. Such a sad thing to happen.
He seems to fight not to remember but at the same time seems intrigued. Interested snippet.
So terrible to have his memories blocked.
Not a pleasant world you’ve created. Awesome snippet.
He’s so c black and white, so factual…just the way they programmed him. She’s got a lot on her hands. Good writing!