“You’re not sick, are you?”
“That’s a long, f****d up story.”
Every brain cell and muscle in my body was telling me to run. But where would I even go? “Were you even actually deployed?”
My husband flinched in pain. “I would never leave you of my own free will.”
Tears filled my eyes. I knew he was telling the truth. “Then what the f**k happened?”
“They wanted physically fit men and women close to retirement. All I asked was for the chance to make love to my wife one last time. I was supposed to be erased. I was supposed to just disappear, leaving behind a carbon copy. They’d use my consciousness for research while keeping my body around for experimental augmentation. But your love, having you close, it changed something.”
The s*x saved your brain. Well, that’s just great. “But why? Wh
