The Return by Kelly St. Clare

Author:Kelly St. Clare [St. Clare, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-28T22:00:00+00:00

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“Top of the morning to ya,” Houston sang, bursting in to the clinic.

He eyed Charlee, who sat studying the medi-tech. “I’d like to talk to Romy alone.”

Romy smiled as Charlee remained where she was, her eyes darting between Houston and Romy.

“It’s okay, Charlee,” Romy reassured her.

“I haven’t given you anything for the pain,” she argued.

Honestly, the medication didn’t do anything for the whipping pain reverberating in Romy’s skull.

But it sure has fun side effects.

She gritted her teeth against the voice.

She was hearing Feral Romy more and more now. It wouldn’t be long until she lost her mind completely—Feral Romy was becoming stronger. She just had to keep it together until then. After that . . . well, Romy didn’t think she’d be too worried about anything.

Romy drew in a shaking breath that did nothing to defrost her frozen core.

She’d killed a person and had no memory of it. What if Feral Romy had killed one of Knot 27? Or Atlas? Or some innocent person in Amach?

Next time, Romy would get the doctors to tie her down; her body wasn’t her own anymore.

Dramatic.

“Shut up,” she hissed.

A throat cleared. Romy jerked and scanned the room. Charlee was gone and Houston watched her, eating popcorn.

“Fascinating,” he remarked. “I can almost tell when she’s ‘in the house’.”

Romy scowled at him. “Did the blood samples work this time?”

“Nope, but your nanos are taking five times as long to incapacitate any foreign nanos. It won’t be long now.”

“Great,” she said drily.

This guy is suss.

For once Romy agreed with her feral self.

“Together, we’ll find the answer,” he said, his eyes shifting to her. “We could do a lot to help beat the Mandate together, you realise that.”

His words were a little off. Cryptic, almost. “Save it, Houston. Just find the damn cure and spare me the speech.”

Anger flashed in his eyes, so quickly Romy wondered if she’d seen it.

He shoved another fistful of popcorn into his mouth and chewed. Finally, he winked at her and made for the door. “You got it, little alien. I’ll see you both again soon.”

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