Chapter 20Akira felt emptiness inside at seeing her mother. She looked good, and they looked alike. Akira always took after her mother’s side more than her dad’s, but she was abandoned by her mother, who chose military service first.
“So, Mom, why this meeting?”
A server sporting a tuxedo and thick mustache took their orders and left.
“You’re my daughter. I want to see you. I know it’s been a while, but I’ve been so busy at work. Sometimes I only get four hours of sleep a night. It’s been hard and—”
Akira fired back, “You don’t think it’s been hard on me?”
Mom lowered her head. “I’m working on a breakthrough drug that will leave no memory of its use. It will allow us to interrogate people, make them relaxed, but so they tell the truth. Our country has done wrong interrogating suspecte
