What happens when a merman cyborg steals a human wife? When my husband dies, leaving me a widow on the frontier planet Traxia, his best friend—a merman-turned-cyborg—decides to offer me his protection. All I have to do is marry him. There are good reasons to accept his offer. If I didn’t think with my heart, I’d be wise to say yes. But this cyborg is shrewd and calculating and so clinical. Plus, my husband’s body is barely cold. I just can’t do it. When I essentially tell him to get bent, he demonstrates why the local cowboys are afraid of him. I didn’t know he possesses the ability to alter areas of my brain—and with no hesitation, he begins exploiting a way to circumvent my flat-out No to his marriage proposal. ***Note: This is a 17K Short Story Romance you can enjoy during a lunchbreak or two. There’s an HEA ending and no cheating. *Trigger warning* if you’re averse to trigger material in your romance.