"Asaro, Catherine - Echea" - читать интересную книгу автора (Asaro Catherine)

"DadЦ"

"Honey, we gotta use what we got."

It might have been his motto. We gotta use
what we got. IТd heard it all my life.
HeТd come from Earth, heТd said, in one of
the last free ships. Some of the others we
knew said there were no free ships except
for parolees, and I often wondered if he
had come on one of those. His morals were
certainly slippery enough.

I donТt remember my mother. IТm not even
sure I had one. IТd seen more than one
adult buy an infant, and then proceed to
exploit it for gain. It wouldnТt have been
beyond him.

But he loved me. That much was clear.

And I adored him.

IТd have done the job just because heТd
asked it.

IТd done it before.

The last job was how weТd gotten here. IТd
been younger then and I hadnТt completely
understood.

But IТd understood when we were done.

And IТd hated myself.

"IsnТt there another way?" I found myself
asking.

He put his hand on the back of my head,
propelling me forward. "You know better,"
he said. "ThereТs nothing here for us."

"There might not be anything in Colony
Latina, either."

"TheyТre getting shipments from the U.N.
Seems they vowed to negotiate a peace."