’ The news hit me like a board across my head, and for a moment I was speechless. Madeleine misread my silence as disapproval, and she spoke in a co...cerned tone. ‘Robert? Does this displease you?’ she said. ‘Oh, God, no, my love,’ I said. ‘I’m just a little stunned. We are going to have a child? Oh my God. You could not have given me a more wonderful Christmas present. Are you sure what we just did is not going to harm the baby?’ ‘Don’t worry , Robert,’ she said. ‘Once I get further along, it. Wilson was the teacher all of guys always talked about, we all wanted to fuck her, she was hot. I stopped by the school and went to her classroom. She was there but gave me the brush off. I mean she was nice and we talked for a while and all but I got no indication that she was going to bang me. I drove home feeling a little bummed and decided that I should stick to girls my own age. Next day I was driving and I passed by Mrs. Conner's house. She was my history teacher. She was in her front. I mean..." I shrugged. How did you thank someone for bring you back to life? "I got a new job, met some interesting people." I had to grin at that. "Learned a lot about myself and..." I shrugged again.Cleo hopped off her stool and hugged me."What are friends for? I'm leaving if you're gonna get all mushie on me." And Cleo left. Just like that.I walked to the door and watched her pull away. The house seemed very quiet.I looked around the area. The place was already feeling empty. There wasn't. We issued ourselves 45% of the pool of stock and reserved 10% for other purposes.The FBI did background checks on all of our existing employees, including Bob and I, and weeded out a few who didn't pass muster. Mei, Wei, Sun and Jun then did their own background checks, weeding out a couple more.Speaking of the girls: I was able to talk the INS and the State Department into issuing them H1 visas, allowing them to stay in this country as my employees. They too had to undergo the FBI's background.