Sydney wasn’t comfortable with Miss Parker’s way of talking about Angelo. He was trying to help Angelo, not merely for the information stored in his brain but for compassion on the ruination of his psyche, and Miss Parker spoke of it as simply another way to get her what she wanted. Give him his next dose, not so that he can regain his lost self, but so that she can get out of him what she needs for her own purposes. Treating him like an object, an instrument for her use.

            Like I treated Jarod, part of his brain whispered.