The doors slid open. Dreadful and her Bonecrushers flooded the room.
I finished off my drink and patted Von Berg on the shoulder as they surrounded him. “You’re in over your head, darling. Let’s put all the cards on the table. You’re fucked.”
I’d been shot at, stabbed, and kidnapped.
Tonight was the first time I’d ever helped bring down a corporation that owned and ran human existence.
I sure as fuck hoped it would be the last.
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