Chapter 76: Hades’s first fight.
Hades Quinn was not sure if he could call himself human anymore. He had one robot leg, it made him half man, quarter machine. Sometimes, when he felt the cybernetic limb and when it spoke to him, he thought he was dreaming. And sometimes, he wondered what had happened to his real leg.
Had Sunshine cut it off with a sow. Had she smashed it to smithereens with he gigantic hammer? Where was she keeping the limb? Did he even want to know?
Those questions plagued him in quiet moments and they did so at this very moment as he raced around the dirt field which was used for training. He thought about his wife’s awakening. Would it change things between them now?
And he thought about the little kiss on his cheek. The cold feeling was gone, but while it lasted it had been like an imprint of her lips on his cheek.
He tripped over something and fell down, breathing in some dirt.
"Hades," Jo-Stride buzzed, "you have been slow this morning. I thought that we were making progress. You are thinking about your wife again. Repeat after me, women will only slow down my speed."
"Tch!" Hades responded as he got to his feet again. A robot leg that gave dating advise, how funny!! Sometimes he wondered where Sunshine had scavenged the parts from or who had programmed it. It was probably his wife, the woman was a genius at all things mechanics.
If they were in a car and it broke down, he was more likely to play the role of the beauty standing by while she was the heroic one fixing the tire. It was odd, but it was her and it was part of her charm. The image made him smile, and it blessed his heart with unexpected flutters.
Jo-Stride groaned in frustration.
Hades laughed. "I am running, cool your jets."
He did not mean it literally, the robot leg was actually flaring up below, preparing to launch him into the sky like a rocket.
"I suggest a cold shower and a sprint up the mountains." Jo-Stride said.