[Light sci-fi, revenge] Her husband tricked her into going to Myanmar. She fell while trying to escape and became paralyzed from the neck down.
Four hundred days later, a pair of hands placed flexible electrodes against her temples.
“An Lan, the microcurrent will restore your sense of touch.”
The voice was familiar, yet for some reason it made her heart ache. It belonged to a love she could never reach.
At some point, the silver-white mechanical arm had clenched into a fist.
“Give it a try,” he said. “The mechanical arm is sturdy.”
She drove its five metal fingers through the air with the power of her thoughts.
As the painful past came rushing back and memories of that stormy night resurfaced, the man who had deceived her and stolen her family’s fortune finally learned what it meant for revenge to be within reach.
