.. Stop it.... fuckp.!" Melanie pulled my hand away. "I don't mix business with pleasure, I'm sorry Sam... Truly. She dropped a crisp hundred on the c...unter and walked out the bar, pulling her skirt back down as she left. I guessed it was time to move on to the rest of the team and come back to Melanie later. Over the next couple weeks I fanangled my way into the pants and skirts of everyone else in the office, the security guards, and even the mailman. All that was left was that fucking bitch. Somehow,someway before she allows them to mine it for genetics." Max had pouredhimself a drink and walked back to the table, Elise's face washed withhorror."No!" she gasped, when contemplating what happens to the unborn whenthey are mined for their genes. "Please Max, you got to intercede...don't allow her to carry that child!" No need to worry, I already arranged for the fetus to be placed into asurrogate for the duration of the pregnancy. The child will be safe." Hesmiled; it seemed to place. The big draw for saving up for a battlecruiser would be that the cargo bay would be big enough to fit up to two one hundred meter frigates. Enemy ships would definitely be in for a surprise if they thought they were only taking on a single ship.“Yeah, let’s wait, I like that idea,” Ben said. “Assuming future mining runs have a similar yield, that’ll take us another thirteen runs or fourteen runs. More if we need to upgrade our ships a bit between now and then, which is certainly likely if more. Both of us needed the time to recuperate. More important, I wanted to spend the time with him. I don’t know how he had found the time to do it, but he surprised me with tickets to a Broadway show. I protested his paying for them. ‘You deserve it. You’re the best girlfriend I’ve ever had,’ he said. ‘I’m the only girlfriend you ever had.’ ‘Q.E.D.’ ‘What?’ ‘Quod erat demonstrandum. Sorry, it’s Latin. It’s typically used at the end of a mathematical proof. It means ‘as it was to be demonstrated or.