Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

by Martha Wells

Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that’s how they treated it. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.

Miki was so calm and complacent, my performance reliability dropped by 2 percent. I promised.

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

We were talking about GrayCris here, whose company motto seemed to be “profit by killing everybody and taking their stuff.”