Chapter 84: The facility

John watched his wife march out the door, anger in every line of her body. No, not anger alone. Hurt. She was hurt by his actions.

Strange that it irritated him sometimes when she called him her human as if he was merely something she owned. But he missed it when she didn't. This whole arranged-marriage thing had been an attempt to put a cyborg in a position to watch him and learn Earth secrets. He and Anatu both knew that. They both knew they had duties to their own people that had to come first. But for the first time, he wished that wasn't the case.

He'd agreed to the marriage because it gave him a chance to thwart the cyborgs, to study Anatu for weaknesses. From the beginning, he'd planned to use this marriage to get the upper hand, to get rid of the cyborgs while stealing as much of their technology as he could manage.