27The lab at Kyra’s house was packed with people who’d come to watch the interview. For the cyborgs and their spouses s***h girlfriends, it was a sort of celebration to see the story go public. Lucy looked at the cage in the room and felt a curl of dread in her gut. She rubbed a hand over her abdomen. At least she wasn’t feeling the square box in there anymore and that was a good thing. She never figured she would be thanking one of the original creators for her liberation… and Jackson Channing’s ex-wife no less. Like Aja, she had her reservations about the reformed cyber scientist and those who helped her. But the woman hadn’t blinked an eyelash in rebuke when Lucy had confessed to not remembering having killed her abusive ex-husband. Not that she’d accepted that she had killed him yet

