For three years they called me a freak—and I stayed silent—until they touched my little sister in front of everyone, and the truth I buried finally came out and changed everything.

of my human conditioning and leaving nothing but the pure, lethal software of Number Seven. I didn’t calculate the distance, I didn’t evaluate the angles; my body simply reacted with the terrifying speed of a triggered landmine. I reached down, grabbed a jagged, two-pound shard of shattered iron track plating from the dirt, and hurled it with every continue reading …