Chapter 54

“I trusted him. After I left the Aldecaldos and came to Night City, he was my first partner.” Panam stood with one hand on her hip, coldly staring at the twisted corpse at her feet. “Guess my kindness meant jack shit to him.”

It was late at night on the winding roads outside Rocky Ridge. The air was getting chilly.

The ambush in town had gone off without a hitch. Aside from Panam’s Thorton Mackinaw “Beast,” the other two beat-up rides—a Thorton Galena “Gecko” and a Mizutani Shion—were turned into scrap metal courtesy of Roqi’s anti-tank suicide drones.