Compulsory, by Martha Wells

Compulsory is a story from the Murderbot Diaries, the first of which was All Systems Red.  The story is very consistent--our angsty teenage Murderbot defies its programming and inclinations to be more humane than allowed, and saves the humans it is charged mostly to protect from each other.  It's a decent story, I'm just still cheesed by how All Systems Red managed to win an award while neither of Sarah Pinsker's excellent, thoughtful SF stories got a smell.  Anyway, if you like All Systems Red you will want to read this.