Captive_A Dark Cyborg Romance by Loki Renard

Author:Loki Renard [Renard, Loki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 2018-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Another seven days has passed; two weeks in this dark little lair where the lights flicker when unseen people above take actions we can’t fathom from our little hiding spot.

I am trying one last attempt to reason with my cyborg captor as we bathe together, steam gently rising from the bath up toward the vents that I have spent the last fourteen days deftly hollowing a path out around. All that stands between me and freedom now is a square patch of wood in the library floor, carefully cut out and braced with a nail or two.

I could have left yesterday, but I don’t really want to leave him. I want him to come with me. I want us to leave together, to face whatever the world has to throw at us. His insistence on burying me like treasure, hoarding me away from the world like a jealous dragon will be the end of us if he will not see reason.

“They’re looking for you,” I say, letting my fingers pass through the water. “And me. They’d take us both. And whatever’s inside me.”

“I’ve calculated the odds,” he replies. “Your government barely knows where to look for us. Ascent kept the details of my creation very secret, and I made sure to destroy all of it before I left. They will need you to remake another one like me.”

“So we need to escape. We can’t stay here. The longer we stay, the more likely they put together your trajectory from various satellite and other surveillance and pinpoint this place.”

What I’m saying is true. They will have mapped as much of his comings and goings as they could have. We’re talking computers as big as small cities, all dedicated to putting together little bits and pieces of information.

They will find us here eventually, of that I have no doubt. Adam doesn’t understand what he’s up against, and whatever animal instinct we gave him in that brain of his, it’s telling him to go to ground.

“I am monitoring the situation,” he says. “You have no need to worry.”

He won’t listen. So I won’t speak anymore. I have my escape fully planned. Tonight, when he powers down for a bit, I will slip the panel behind the big bath to the side and I will make my way out into the world without him.

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