“Pathetic. She knows nothing.”
Cael sucked a breath in, trying to breathe with broken ribs as Lana sneered dismissively and walked away, leaving her lying in a crumpled heap on the floor.
They’d beaten her, broken bones and ruptured more of her subdermal meshes than she wanted to think about. She silenced her onboard’s multiple warnings and tried to ignore the pain. She couldn’t turn it off. It clawed at her very bones, holding her in a vise-like grip, and she felt her breathing speed up and become shallow. Panic. Her onboard easily identified the emotion, but she was powerless to do anything about it. The first thing they’d done when they’d brought her aboard was remove most of her control over her own body.
A lone tear streaked down her cheek. That terrified her. They’d removed her co
