That was when Katherine finally realized what was wrong. Perhaps it was the look on his face, or something he said, or even a delayed realization about the presence of the exos, but something caused her to realize they gained nothing by giving her the cure. They were going to kill her and take the MDLR, and then I would die as well.
She took a step back, as though trying to distance herself from her horrible discovery, and Krougger must have realized she wouldn’t go easily. Fortunately for Katherine, that was when I shot his companion with a self-detonating slug fired from 600 metrics distant with my MLP Ranger.
I caught the man in the right shoulder, even though he was wearing some kind of body armor. But the Ranger delivers one serious blow. His shoulder exploded, and the force of the
