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ire? The bat triggered the alarm I asked him to do it as a distraction”

She stilled in his ar eyes of hers “How are you able to co on here? None of this e? I trusted you”

“And you were right to trust me You need to listen to me carefully, okay? I didn’t ask the bat to push you off anything The da only listens to me about fifty percent of the time He flew at you to say hello” And he are of just hoeird that sounded

“Are you telling me you can’t control your own freaky implant? Is it so? Why don’t you just get the progra those things, anyway? I’ve never heard of anything like it It isn’t nor with it?”

Part of hi more, but the truth of the matter was that it was far too late for that She already knew too ht the bat was tech instead of a real bat, she would still tell people about it And after CommTECH had become suspicious about Striker’s anirammable animal implants

He took a deep breath and looked her in the eye, which was easy because he was holding her two feet off the ground, and he told her the truth “The bat isn’t tech He isn’t an ienetic ed with the bat’s”

She was quiet for a beat, and Mace spent it praying that she wouldn’t start screaain Soundproofed room or not, that screech hurt his ears

The color drained fro me that I had sex with a bat?”

“What? No!” Of course her brain went to the one place he’d never expected it to “Where the hell does the stuff in your head come from? You had sex with me”

“But you’re part bat How is that even possible? Genetic experial Why would you take part in an illegal and dangerous experiet a bat? I et so cool—like a lion But a bat?”

“Stop saying that, and it wasn’t an experiment I’m not part bat I’m a man, and the bat’s a bat We just kind of…share the same space” Yeah, that explanation had never ht it

“It wasn’t an experiment? Then how did it happen? Why did it happen? Why would you want to share your DNA with a bat? Oh ed with a bat’s The bat is part human, and that makes you part bat” She threw back her head and wailed “I had sex with a bat” Her head shot forward “Does nant, will I give birth to a bat? This is a nightmare”

He couldn’t take the noise any longer His geneticallyhis eardru he could think of to shut her up He kissed her His lips slaainst hers And then a brutal, sharp pain shot out from his balls He dropped Keiko, clutched his dick, and crumpled to the floor

“What the hell?” The words squeaked out through his clenched teeth

She glared down at hi untouchable “You don’t get to force your will on me”