Hold by zannie adams6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Or maybe he didn’t want her to know he was done.Īs if in response to that thought, Cain glanced back at where she was sprawled out. Maybe he didn’t want any other prisoners to see what he’d made. Maybe it couldn’t perform its function in this cell. If it was done, though, why didn’t he turn it on and test it out? ![]() He’d added a lot of new parts over the last two months, but they had all been small and hadn’t made a significant difference in the appearance. She turned her gaze to the device but it didn’t look significantly different from how it had before. He looked watchful again-like he had earlier on his run. He didn’t look thoughtful or frustrated or impatient. And he never had this particular expression on his face. ![]() Sometimes he did that when he was trying to decide what kind of part he needed or when he was trying to work through how to design a certain section of it.īut he never sat back like this for so long. He’d sat back on his heels and was just staring at the crude, ungainly machine. She was about to drift off to sleep when she noticed something odd about Cain’s manner. He worked for about an hour, until Riana started getting drowsy. When he’d washed up, he went back to his device, and she lay on the bed as she always did and watched. Not just because she was the only one he had. If not to survive, then at least to soften the stark, bleak lines of his life here.īut she wanted him to like her for real, to need her simply for who she was. ![]()
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