Chapter 19, Six:No matter how Six tried to flush recent memory from her thinking, she failed. The strange bespectacled man never introduced himself. That didn’t bother her much. She was used to a certain anonymity of others.
She knew many compounds that would relieve her of the thoughts, but they would leave her too addled to function.
No, what bothered her was the way he carried himself. Like before they’d even met, he assumed to know what was right for her. She felt the strange need to f**k her way through the population of Zar to prove him wrong. Why she allowed him to willow his way under her skin like a parasitic worm infuriated her even more.
The man wasn’t smart enough, didn’t understand the futility of arguing with a woman who’d made up her mind. Six never learned his name. Didn
