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“Report back on the scans, Sassi!”
“Affirmative!” the bot yelled from the hallway. “Gotcha!”
“Hmmm.” Maybe activating Sassi fully had triggered a personality upgrade and that was the reason for the odd dialogue?
The scans came back as normal, apart from some minor memory losses. Now she had a butler bot that could kill. Her tutors were lucky she rarely lost her temper. The tutor on sewerage and infrastructure was absolutely boring. Though Sassi seemed to lose efficiency with the butlering, the pluses outweighed the minuses. Objects were going missing but what were a few pieces of misplaced silverware versus security?
Another week passed and there were no more notes from Roarke. She found herself hoping he’d died. Which was surely awful?
It was a relief the day Drake told her the mauleon meeting was imminent.
Imminent, she discovered, meant that very night.
Then, another letter arrived on the hallway shelving.
Chapter Nineteen
Her hand shook as she picked up the envelope and tore it open. The royal header was on the letter and had the same wobbly writing. She stopped reading after the words Meet me and shoved it back into the envelope, tucked down the torn edges.
She needed advice and there was one possibility only.
“Sassi!”
“Yes?”
The bot ambled from the linen cupboard. The bright red eyes startled her again. Eye stalks had been so much friendlier.
“Umm.” She shook her head. “Were you programmed to assess complex threats?”
“Of course.”
“Well.” She waggled the envelope. “I’m going to give you a summary of what has happened. And you tell me if I’m wrong to give this to Drake.”
After a moment to run through the facts in her mind, she rattled them off, ending with the words she’d just read.
Sassi stood still for only a few seconds, then raised his eyes and locked onto her face. “You need to tell Drake. I don’t have the facts to determine who this originates from but it’s unlikely it is your brother. And likely to be an enemy.”
