”He thought about it for a moment, then groaned as he said, “She’s going to a hell of a lot of trouble for something we’re never going to use!...��Rachel giggled, and replied, “She knew you’d say that, and told me to remind you, that you said, ‘Join the crew as Chief-Engineer, and you can work on whatever side-projects you like’.”“What is it with these Karron girls and verbal contracts?” John grumbled good-naturedly, and he heard Alyssa’s laughter even from up on the maintenance gantry.Sorry to. " I paused and looked at my watch, "I guess I'd better go. Mum and Len will be waiting. Do they know about all this?" Yes, I told them. There's no point in keeping secrets." You and Susan? You'll be alright, won't you? We don't need another broken marriage on our hands." Oh, we'll pull through. You get used to living with all sorts of things. And you don't even think of breaking up when you've been married as long as we have. Don't worry about that."I looked at my watch, "Well, I guess I ought. It wasn't just for me, everyone around me needed my mission to help them carry on after I was gone. It was strange, in order to ensure the future of the girls and the viability of their new race, I'd have to activate as many of them as I could. However it now looked like I had a limited amount of time to do it in. That meant my life would shortly be reduced to my becoming a screwing machine. I thought I was already being spread too thin. How could I love any of them enough when I didn't have. How was school?”After dropping my backpack on the floor, I said, “Maybe it’s time to have a man in your life again?”She tried to get me to stop but I said, “Close your eyes? Tell me what your perfect man looks like when your eyes are closed?”Her eyes were closed and a lovely smiled formed on her face as she said, “Let’s see:”“Just a little bit taller than me, with dark brown or black hair and blue eyes!”“Go on, tell me more about him!”“I want him to think more about me then about himself. If he.