In a future where the United States is slowly rebuilding itself, Omega Travis Danten is a big city cop sent to a seemingly desolate city on the edge of the Waste. This desert is full of undesirables, and it’s only a matter of time before they wreak havoc. But, Omegas are always assigned Alphas, and his new partner’s job is to protect him.<br><br>But SdAI Alpha Virgil is not at all amused with the partner who chose him. Travis is willful and naive to the dangers a homicide detective faces here, and it makes Virgil’s job that much harder. And Travis, of course, is human and develops feelings, feelings that go beyond the rules about Omega/Alpha partnerships.<br><br>Travis and Virgil have to find common ground, find a killer, and find space for each other in their own hearts, even if one is artificial.

Artificial Heart

A flash of despair arced neatly across his entire core. Virgil smothered a gasp, ruthlessly quashed the instinct to curl in on himself. The emotion was not his, not directly. It belonged to Travis. Virgil never much cared for the finer details of quantum entanglement when it came to bonds, but now he was only grateful that it existed. The bond’s help was negligible, insofar as finding a location for his mate. The confirmation, ephemeral though it was, let Virgil slough off some of the tension. Rage, on the other hand, swiftly filled the empty space left behind.


It prickled hot through his skin and muscles in a subtle vibration. Someone had his mateand he was stuck, stonewalled into an excruciating wait.


Frozen, he rumbled a sub-vocal stream of violence on the head of whoever had Travis.


Chapter 34