"I nodded."Well she was in her early teens when her father was jailed. When he came out he hit the bottle even harder. The family had to sell the hous..., and McVeigh couldn't hold down a job for more than months. From what I can make out he blamed you for everything. Eventually his wife left him and took the daughter with her. But she accepted what she had heard from her father and held you responsible for what happened to her family. Anyway, she joined the police in Devon and did fairly well by. What started as an experiment to use old traces of untainted DNA from celebrity memorabilia to create cloned women without the infection, slowly turned into a custom made-to-order female "companion" creator, when it was declared useless in evading the virus. The cloned famous ladies would be H1W1 negative during the long 18 years of maturing in their artificial womb, but would become infected at the slightest contact with the outside world.This meant it was still advantageous to use pre-virus. She said that first shewanted to make me more suited to the role and told me to go and take abath in the large on-suite. I was drying myself off when she returned with various bags and boxes.First, she led me to two leather wrist cuffs that dangled from chainswhich disappeared into the ceiling. She attached these to my wrists andI noticed similar ankle cuffs and chains secured to the floor. I spreadmy legs obligingly and she applied these too. I realised that I washanding power and control. Right." The first drops of rain were falling and Philip wondered if they should run for cover. But what the hell, as Lisa said, it was only rain.Suddenly Lisa giggled. "I didn't know you were so big!" she said.Philip felt his face colour and he didn't know what to say."And so much sperm! There was masses of it. All over everything. You must've been pretty dammed up!"It started to rain heavily, big drops of warm summer rain that soaked their hair, ran off their faces, penetrated their clothes..