Elias looked at her, wary. "Why are you helping me? You're barely older than I am."
The 20-Series were the city’s elite enforcers—cold, calculated machines wrapped in synthetic skin. They were the private army of the NX Corporation, the entity that owned every breath of air in the city. "What did you do?" Leo asked, reaching for his pulse-baton. my stepmom 20 2023 neonx original
"I found the source code," Mara said, plugging the shard into the ancient terminal on their kitchen table. "The 2023 update isn't a patch for the city's power grid. It's an expiration date. They’re shutting down the lower tiers. Everyone in Neo-NX is being 'decommissioned' at midnight." Elias looked at her, wary