This is truly the greatest moment of my entire life and I assure you I don’t have a boyfriend at present. Please take my hand and come with me.’ T...e entire word processing pool was in near hysterics. Jane almost puked when she went through her doorway and heard Teddy say throatily, ‘Oh Rose baby. Do I like the way you have been constructed.’ The shrieks of laughter from the pool attracted their supervisor and other people who arrived on the run. Back in her office Jane panicked. ‘You stupid. Then she came back to the moment, seeing the money that he'd wadded up and thrown at her. They were twenty dollar bills, and there were quite a few; at least several hundred dollars worth. That made her stomach lurch a little; the analogy of her being a whore was suddenly real. She felt so low; but she was also aware of the fact that she felt warm inside, with thoughts of being treated like a whore.Then her attention focused on the envelope. That's when her nerves were attacked again; what. No possibilty of children, or love. In a waythat was one of the things that makes Uploads safe when AIs aren't.Our work gave us purpose, a reason to exist. A couple of us had gonerogue, but in a harmless way. They went full-speed and sealedthemselves off to live out whole-life simulations where they wereunaware it was a simulation. Between lives they emerged in full tosavour their experience and decide the next scenario. They tested itout before isolating themselves but it never appealed. But in this case, I was mostly being honest. I had done my homework and there was quite a while before I needed to be home for dinner. The only problem was that I didn’t have a clue where she lived, but in such a small town the extra distance couldn’t be too onerous. Besides, I wanted to see whether she was in on the whole ‘gay’ conspiracy.Cheryl beamed a kilowatt smile at me. “I knew you were a good guy when I saw you chatting with Melinda at lunchtime. I thought it was very noble of you to be.