" That sounds reasonable," I said. "What day?" Tuesday of next week. Is that difficult?" No." I was already looking at the calendar."That would be the...interview date. We can discuss a schedule for the testing at that time." I assume that my husband should be present as well," I stated."Is he the father of the child? In loco parentis?"Okay, maybe I DO have a little evil streak. This woman seems to be operating under the assumption that I am Terri's mother and my husband is some random dude who's. Somehow in hermind as she wasn't actually speaking... that not only was I now part ofthe experiment, I would be allowing her time to deep think on herresearch. She told me that there just weren't enough hours in the day todo everything that was important to her. Thinking about her researchwould take up hours of her day. Running her company was a 12 hour a dayjob plus the actual lab time for her research. Taking care of her bodyand taking care of her marriage were also time consuming. . Before she could do more than glance at some of the things around her, her father had grabbed her wrists and cuffed them together in front of her. He reached above their heads and grabbed a hook hanging from a pulley, clipping it to the cuffs and suspending her so that she was on the tips of her toes and hanging helplessly before him. He stepped to the wall and took down a ball gag, quickly securing it in place so that Maya couldn’t speak. Next came a blindfold, and Maya felt completely. It covers yearly examinations and mammograms for the next ten years. It's only $1,995. Trust me, it's an excellent insurance policy." Well, I've already spread myself pretty thin," Ethan countered."No problem, Ethan, we can add the insurance to your monthly payment."The manager slid a form in front of Ethan and said, "Just sign here,"Ethan scanned the form, seeing that it would add an extra $15 to his monthly payment, grimaced at the thought of going above the numbers he thought he had already.