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Beyond the VEIL #4
Entangled with a Cyclops
Love can't be programmed...can it?
Computer programmer Minerva Wong is reeling from the failure of the experiment at the VEIL facility. She's also trying to ignore that something passed before her eyes that resembled nothing human. While trying to determine what went wrong, she comes face to face with the janitor, Joshua Dennison who also says he saw the same thing.Joshua has always admired Minerva from afar but they're from two different worlds. She'll never give him the time of day. He experiences an accident while running away from a strange shadow, and finds himself in Minerva's gentle care. The longer these two are together, the more their emotions become entangled. Is it simply a case of a growing love? Or is it the cyclops pulling their emotional strings as if they were marionettes?
Computer programmer Minerva Wong is reeling from the failure of the experiment at the VEIL facility. She's also trying to ignore that something passed before her eyes that resembled nothing human. While trying to determine what went wrong, she comes face to face with the janitor, Joshua Dennison who also says he saw the same thing.Joshua has always admired Minerva from afar but they're from two different worlds. She'll never give him the time of day. He experiences an accident while running away from a strange shadow, and finds himself in Minerva's gentle care. The longer these two are together, the more their emotions become entangled. Is it simply a case of a growing love? Or is it the cyclops pulling their emotional strings as if they were marionettes?
91 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 20, 2020
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Parker J. Cole
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February 7, 2020
Minerva Wong studied the computer screen. After an experiment exploded in the lab, the simple creation of entangled photons, and something came out of the fissure it created. Something tall, something huge, something inhuman and moving extremely fast. At least she thought she saw something? Everyone else left the building, but she went back and couldn’t leave until she figured this out. A voice startled her, and Joshua Dennison, the janitor, moved away from the dark corner into view. He told her that he thought something went past him, moving rapidly, after the explosion! So he was staying back out of sight. She rubbed his arm as they talked. He touched her hair and moved it off her shoulder. Why were they doing this? Why didn’t it alarm her? She even started to like it! They both looked into each other’s eyes and saw the confusion there – then jumped away from each other.
Joshua replayed what he saw in his mind. A big shadow with two huge legs, bigger and bulkier than a Clydesdale horse. It stood several feet taller than he was, and he was 6’4”. It had scared him and he hid until he saw Ms. Wong come in. Why had she touched him? And why did he see interest in her eyes? He started to leave the building when the hairs on his neck stood up and he felt something watching him! He started to run but tripped and hit his head against the metal door as everything went black.
Birog, a cyclops, stood over the two-eyed man on the floor. She had watched him and the woman earlier, seeing colors that she could manipulate. The purple one had them touching, and tugging it pulled them closer together. Their breathing and warmth increased also. When she dropped the color ribbon, they jumped away from each other and the gray one intensified as they both seemed confused. How did he sense her behind him? And why was he terrified, orange-blackish hues of color surrounding him? She heard footsteps and she hid herself from the woman coming down the hall.
When Joshua awakens, he finds himself being cared for by Minerva. With their shared, frightening experience, they become closer. But are they falling in love naturally? Or is a cyclops studying the ribbons that seem to control their behavior?
This was a very clever story line I had not run into before. A sense of tension surrounds the reader since nothing is known about the cyclops who moves among them as a shadow. Grab your copy and find out what is real and where this story will take them.
Joshua replayed what he saw in his mind. A big shadow with two huge legs, bigger and bulkier than a Clydesdale horse. It stood several feet taller than he was, and he was 6’4”. It had scared him and he hid until he saw Ms. Wong come in. Why had she touched him? And why did he see interest in her eyes? He started to leave the building when the hairs on his neck stood up and he felt something watching him! He started to run but tripped and hit his head against the metal door as everything went black.
Birog, a cyclops, stood over the two-eyed man on the floor. She had watched him and the woman earlier, seeing colors that she could manipulate. The purple one had them touching, and tugging it pulled them closer together. Their breathing and warmth increased also. When she dropped the color ribbon, they jumped away from each other and the gray one intensified as they both seemed confused. How did he sense her behind him? And why was he terrified, orange-blackish hues of color surrounding him? She heard footsteps and she hid herself from the woman coming down the hall.
When Joshua awakens, he finds himself being cared for by Minerva. With their shared, frightening experience, they become closer. But are they falling in love naturally? Or is a cyclops studying the ribbons that seem to control their behavior?
This was a very clever story line I had not run into before. A sense of tension surrounds the reader since nothing is known about the cyclops who moves among them as a shadow. Grab your copy and find out what is real and where this story will take them.
January 29, 2020
Short, fun read. Original and creative. The cyclops magic is described brilliantly and relationship between Minnie and Joshua is just adorable and sweet.
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I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
January 23, 2020
Very good book with love and mystery intertwined. I though I don’t normally read Syfy. This was very good and I will be looking forward to her next book.
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