“You tended to my injuries,” he pointed out. I was hung up on the parts you didn’t do, or did wrong, and that isn’t right.” I don’t… I don’t think I really thanked you for all that. You saved my life… you led me to safety… you even put your life on the line for me-and this is just today.
She was quiet for another interval, though two or three times he heard her inhale as if to speak. “I don’t expect it will fall off,” he said. Her fingers were warm and soothing against his bare skin. She touched his shoulder, just below the ragged fabric where his sleeve had once been. “I’m not used to being alone in my own head. “I need you to keep talking,” he said quietly, and was surprised by the tremor he heard in his own voice. She has the skills he needs to unlock his forgotten past, but learning who he used to be may come at the cost of his remaining sanity. When his misguided act of kindness spirals out of control, however, Julia is forced to trust the mad genius with her life, and she discovers the vulnerable side under his armored plating. While he eagerly drops his plans for World Conquest to woo her, ten years of solitude have left his social skills badly rusted. When reclusive cyborg Alistair Mechanus meets his captive, ER doctor Julia Parker, it is love at first sight – for him.
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