I started walking again, taking longer, faster strides. I nearly gave in to the urge to grind my teeth. “It’s a valid question, don’t you think? Given your. I stopped dead in my tracks, my boot scuffing on the sidewalk. You’re not getting sentimental about this job, are you?” “Choice is yours, but it’s one or the other.” “Do you want it done quickly, or do you want it done right?” I muttered as I adjusted my cell phone’s earpiece. Why is my son still alive, Liam?” The irritation in Richard Harding’s voice set my teeth on edge. Can they find each other again, or will the Cybernetix assassins find them first? They have no reason to trust each other, but as the dawn looms, a bargain that began with the simple urge to live soon reminds them of the love they once shared. Daniel’s father has betrayed them both, and only by working together can Daniel and Liam survive the coming day. When Liam is hired to slaughter a man in his glass Sky tower, he walks right into a Daniel-shaped trap. Years of anger and a heap of mods have kept Daniel and Liam apart. Horrified by people less man than machine and the exploitation of Gutter factory workers, he’d rather destroy Cybernetix than inherit it. Liam’s ex-lover Daniel is the heir to Cybernetix-and its greatest threat. Between his natural strengths and his Cybernetix mods, no mark has ever escaped him. Cast down from the wealth and status of the Sky for taking a human lover, Liam lurks in the poor and pollutio n-choked Gutter, killing to survive.

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A Chip in His Shoulder by L.A. Witt