Download My Love by Eva LeFoy Read Free Book Online

talk to a cow. She ought to know. She’d spent too many hours of her life doing it already since she had few human friends. But what had Everett so upset? It was her head on the chopping block, not his. Thanks to dear old Dad.
    She sighed and sat on the grass. During her early childhood, her father had always been her best friend. They’d done everything together. He’d taken her to her first movie, helped her with her homework, and invented silly games for her to play. But after Mom had died of antibiotic-resistant China 12 Virus, he’d shut himself away and given himself over completely to his work. She’d hated him for choosing his work with technology over her needs, letting his zeal to reshape human lives overshadow their bond. So she’d gone her own way with her cows and her tools to reshape mankind’s future to her ideals. At a total impasse, their ideas mutually exclusive, they’d never spoken again. And now this.
    No apologies. No goodbye. Just…look out for the laser fire.
    Everett had fewer problems by comparison, so what had flipped his switch into auto-combust mode?
    Her eyes bugged open. Wait . Everett was a mechanoid. He didn’t have feelings. But he’d seemed awfully upset. Oh my God. It can’t be, can it?
    She stood up, hand on her chest, mortified. “If Everett has feelings, what must he think of me?” The image of Everett winking at her after she’d handed him back the dildo, the smoldering look in his eyes when he’d kissed her, and his depressed, angry face on the rooftop came back in a flash. “It can’t be true. Can it?” If Everett had emotions and she’d let her hatred of technology blind her to the fact, then she’d treated him cruelly. Much more callously than she’d ever intended. The corners of her heart pinched at the thought of hurting Everett, even unintentionally. She cared about him and wanted to make amends.
    Out of the corner of her eye she saw an Everett-like figure walking into the building at a fast clip. That’s odd, why is he going in the front door? What was he doing out here? She shoved her questions aside. She had to talk to him about other things. Leaving her cows she scrambled after him, but he’d already reached the main doors and was quickly walking inside. “Everett. Wait!”
    Even at a fast run she couldn’t catch him, he moved too damn fast. By the time she got inside Everett was nowhere to be seen. Oh wait. There he is . She caught a glimpse of him as he stepped inside the travel tube, but before she could follow, the transportation device had swept him away. She vaguely remembered riding in one when they’d first arrived at Security Core, but the thought of doing it alone made her queasy. After a quick search she realized there wasn’t an old fashioned escalator in sight. If she wanted to catch him she’d have to suck it up. She took a deep breath. “Okay, I can do this.”
    She stepped inside the nearest tube and braced herself. Nothing happened. “Um….”
    “State destination.”
    She was only familiar with a couple of places and she had no idea where Everett had gone. “Um…lab?”
    “Lab level four confirmed. Thank you for traveling with Core Central.”
    Whoosh . A huge column of air swept her off her feet. She was sucked up the tube with nothing to hang on to and no way to stop. She screamed, but that too, was sucked away, right out of her lungs. Then she was thrown sideways. Her stomach slammed into her kidney and made a squishy sound she didn’t like. Seconds later she found herself ejected, landing on her knees in the hallway right outside the lab. She stood and dusted herself off. “Gee, thanks for the lift.” Stupid computers .
    Everett definitely wasn’t in the same category. She realized that now. She only hoped she wasn’t too late to tell him how sorry she was for her initial assumptions. After bursting through the lab doors she found Everett and Alex in a heated argument.
    Alex had his arms crossed over his chest.