Lured by the Tentacle Drone

The mining colony was abandoned decades ago.

But something still waits in the dark.

When Rowan investigates a distress signal from the derelict tunnels of Sector 7, he expects faulty equipment or leftover debris. Instead, he finds walls pulsing with faint bioluminescent veins, machinery rewired by something organic, and a pattern of vibrations that feels disturbingly like a heartbeat.

Then he hears it... a low, rhythmic hum that draws him deeper into the tunnels.

What he finds at the end of the corridor is not a survivor.

It’s a drone.

A biomechanical tentacled organism built from metal, sinew, and sentient circuitry, watching him with deliberate intelligence. Rowan should run. Instead, he steps closer… compelled, lured, recognized. The drone moves with uncanny precision, testing the air around him, reading him, choosing him.

As the tunnels seal and the Hive awakens, Rowan realizes the truth:

the drone didn’t lure him here to kill him.

It lured him because he is compatible.

A dark MM sci-fi monster romance of biomechanical obsession, forced proximity, abandoned-facility horror, and the unsettling intimacy of being chosen by a living drone from a forgotten Hive.

Expect: MM monster romance, alien drone, biomechanical creature, dark sci fi romance, abandoned mining colony, hive mind, tentacle drone, forced proximity, living machinery, chosen vessel, alien obsession, derelict station horror, bioluminescent tunnels, The Hive’s Embrace, Drone Hive Cycle