Tabitha looked up just in time to see the man dangling by his neck from one of Raathe’s hands. He caught the man’s head with the other hand and snapped his neck.
A wave of nausea rolled through her.
It became a tsunami when Raathe snatched her from the floor, tossed her across one shoulder, and took off at a jog.
She puked until she’d completely emptied her stomach and finally managed to stop gagging.
“You have left a trail for them to follow. We must change directions,” Raathe said flatly.
“Well!Excusethe fuck out of me!” Tabitha snapped. “What did you think was going to happen when you started pounding on my belly like that! And I was already nauseated from the … from …. Did you …? You didn’t …?”
“No,” Raathe responded.
Tabitha was heartened momentarily. “You don’t know what I was going to ask!”
“Did I kill that man?”
“Yes.”
“No.”
Tabitha wasn’t satisfied. She had no idea why—except she’d heard a very sickening bone crunch and the man had gone limp. But Cyborgs could not lie.
Well, they weren’t supposed to be capable of killing people either.
Except the ones that were programmed to kill the enemy—the soldiers.
She’d never considered whether or not Raathe had been programmed to use deadly force when necessary.
And necessary would have been a threat to her or her father.
“Where are we going?” she asked, dismissing the issue when she realized she just couldn’t deal with it at the moment. They’d been in deep shitbeforethe little accident with the manager’s neck.
“We are running.”
That comment was said in a voice Tabitha didn’t recognize and she pushed away from Raathe far enough to look up. There was a cyborg following them that she didn’t recognize.
Behind him was Caleb.
Caleb sent her a sexy grin when he caught her eye.
Tabitha felt her face redden with discomfort.
She’d just puked all over the place!
A human would never have been able to carry that off—not after watching her empty the contents of her stomach all down Raathe’s backside.
She didn’t think.
But she’d preserved Caleb in her memory as if he’d been a real, human man.
His smile fell after a moment when she didn’t smile back and she felt bad that she hadn’t acknowledged him with a smile in return.
It certainly wouldn’t help his feelings if she pretended she didn’t know who he was!
“You’re supposed to be running!” she said after a moment of desperate search.
He brightened. “I am. I am running in the same direction that you are running.”
