Cindy looked surprised. Before any of them could say anything though, James stepped toward me and took my hand.The girls noticed the movement and shif...ed to look at him. I saw more than a bit of hostility appear. Mindy saw that I was holding his hand. She glared at me. "Is this your boyfriend?" Clearly she was not happy to see me holding his hand.I frowned back at her, not even looking at James. "I don't know, I only met him on Monday. But he has proposed to me twice now." I wasn't gonna let. " He took a large tumbler of whisky from her as she poured vodka into a tall glass spraying tonic from a syphon passing it to me. " Ah a vodka girl eh? " Monica laughed, " it can get you into trouble that stuff! "She laughed again. I took a sip from my glass, the woman certainly have good measures the almost neat vodka burned at my throat. Dave spoke again, " So gentlemen what's the agenda? We have a couple of drinks then get started? " The man sat across from Charlie answered, "Aye, I reckon. OK, OK. But don’t tell anyone or my job is toast – and I will deny it all anyway. I’ll sneak some out of the center next week. Just have Mary take it one morning, stay in bed for the rest of the weekend, and don’t take alcohol or other drugs. It lasts for 72 hours – the bots have an absolute kill time after that so it is all over by then. After that, she’ll be fine.” Peter warned, “Remember, keep it as low key as possible, stay in bed, and read a book or something.”I put my plan in action a. ”I called it my cave because there were no windows. It did have a bunch of computers, seven to be precise, a decked out iMac with two additional screens, a Debian Linux box with a second screen acting as a server, all of that along one section of wall on a nice oak table dominated by a leather mat underneath the screens. A handful of other headless boxes sat in ventilated cabinets out of sight. The same oak dominated the rest of the room with floor to ceiling bookshelves and a large desk which.