Do you understand? No harm need come to you if you can help us with our first goal." Which is?" I asked unnecessarily; he'd tell me anyway."To recover...a certain computer accessory. You know what I speak of?"I nodded. "A flash drive." Correct, Mr. Costain! Very good!" He beamed at me almost like a schoolteacher praising a student for the right answer. "A flash drive, as you say. A very specific flash drive that contains certain information which was pilfered from the confidential files of a. “I made a commitment to my wife.”“You don’t seem too certain about it,” Rin observes. “I mean you still work for my father, not to mention all the fun we’ve had today.”Ashe’s face reddens slightly. “Maybe it’s a mistake what we’ve done so far. I think maybe we need to head back and I’ll tell your father something and he can assign someone else.”“So, I’m just an assignment now?” Rin asks frowning.“I’m not saying that,” Ashe blurts out. “I’m ... I don’t know what I’m saying. You’ve got me so lost. After a moment’s thought I slipped off my shorts and underwear, folded them and put them under my shirt.I wrapped the towel loosely around my waist and lay face down on the massage table with my arms along my sides. It was one of those tables with a cutout so you could breathe but keep your face pointing straight down. I lay there for a moment before there was a gentle knock at the door.“Okay, James?” Angela called softly.“All good,” I called back. From my prone position on the massage table, I. ”I repeated what I had been told, so we left the room and went out the doors to the hallway they called a street. You thought of it as a street considering carts used it, but it was actually a wide hallway. A cart came at us and passed us. I realized that the hallway was plenty wide enough for two carts to pass each other. I asked Fran if she wanted a longer run on the way to the gym, and she agreed with me we probably needed it. We passed the sign that said ‘Gym’, and continued to run and went.