Humans, Bow Down by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson [Patterson, James/Raymond, Emily/Dembowski, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 51

DON’T THINK ABOUT who—or what—is chasing you. Don’t think about the deep shit that awaits you. Just focus on the road.

Too bad it’s so overgrown, I can barely see it. But still we climb, and the wind roars louder and the snow begins to fall.

“Watch it!” the Hu-Bot head says from the backseat as I list too far to the right. The drop on that side is straight down.

“I’m trying,” I snap, yanking the wheel as the tires skid. “Your cruiser’s shit on the ice. I would’ve thought the great and noble premier would pull out all the stops for his Elite Force.”

“Central Command has responsibilities for a much larger cause,” Mikky says. “It cannot concern itself with maintaining individual machines.”

I glance back at her, unsure what the quiver in her voice means. She’s staring straight ahead, propped on a heap of my old, wet clothes so that she can see over the dashboard. After a few seconds of silence, she shifts her gaze, looking up at me out of the corner of her eyes.

“You’re really going to take me there?” she asks meekly. “To a place where I can be repaired?”

“I said I would, didn’t I?” I say with more than a touch of annoyance. The truth is, until that moment, that little bit of vulnerability in her voice, I’d still been planning to ditch her.

But what if I do help her? It’ll go against an unwritten law that dates back to the Great War, and it will probably be the biggest mistake of my life.

“I don’t even know if I can remember the way,” I mutter.

I can keep following this road, but when it ends, can I find the path that I last saw as a terrified eight-year-old? A path that’s old, unused, and buried by snow? And then can I make my way down it, carrying a busted-up Hu-Bot?

Right now, I’m so weak, I don’t know if I could carry my own weight, let alone hers.

“What’s wrong?” the Hu-Bot asks sharply.

I must’ve been swerving again. I blink quickly as the road goes in and out of focus.

“I’m probably dying, is what’s wrong,” I snap. I hate the self-pity I hear in my voice, but the pain is overwhelming. I’m feverish and sweating, dizzy from blood loss.

Mikky’s eyes widen. “But you have to get us there!”

Nice. Real sensitive.

“Talk to me!” she says brightly. “Tell me a story.”

Right… I don’t feel like chatting. We’re not besties, head.

“It’ll help you stay conscious,” the Hu-Bot insists.

Maybe it will. At this point, there aren’t a whole lot of other options.

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