page37 (1/2)
Behind hi to interfere with the arrest, take Mason down for assaulting Curtis?
The bar deserved that, the bastard” He spoke to Jade “Sorry He’d kill me if I didn’t flick a pill in the drink Let me make it up to you all, free drinks for everyone!”
The irls scampered from out of the corners and peered down at the peculiar forave him a hard kick in the balls and he moaned in his stupor
“That’s for your damn so-called toys, you evil—”
Mason pressed her back as she aimed for another kick and stopped her mid-flow “I’m here to take him to Novador He’ll stand trial forweapons, well, everything”
The girls cheered, the men looked on bemused The one who’d approached her first opened histeeth and eye “He punched the hi him I didn’t realize you were undercover, , honestly” The etically at Jade
She hid a sht she was another itive and supposedly a captive
Mason thanked him “Help is appreciated He’s half-machine and likely to be heavy Girls,around Somebody is bound to try to fill his shoes”
A died scar down one side of her face stepped forward and grasped Mason’s hand to her lips, giving his knuckles a brief kiss “Thank you Both of you” She had tears in her eyes and she let go of him to brush them away
“Teesha, thank you Without your courage, we’d not have had this chance”
Jade wanted to hug the littl
e woet off the station He picked up one of Curtis’s legs and started to drag him toward the door The toothless man helped, then another and before they’d reached the exit, a s and carried him out of the bar
Lying on the bed, Jade couldn’t stop shaking It wasn’t through shock, she decided, it had to be the excite Curtis vanquished was iht on the faces of the women
Mason had told her to wait in his quarters and keep the door locked, just in case It see forever to place Curtis in stasis He was a huge gled to get the paralyzed cyborg on board
She needed a distraction, so to pass the ti alone By the bed, on the little table, was her ie cube She activated it and the pictures, so, projected onto the wall She dihts so she could see them clearer: her hometown, the trees, ered for a few seconds beforeon to the next one