It was on the other side of the island, so I took the bus. When I arrived just after ten in the morning it was still quiet. Only a few couples and a f...mily or two. I went to the other end of the beach and put down my towel. I had decided I was going to go topless. That was one of the reasons I had chosen that beach. After work we usually met up with other Reps in the area and had drinks. I knew that they tended to go to the beaches closer to the hotel where they lived, so I went to this one.. She had gone home to be with her parents in Colorado and I would not see her again until the fall. Polly spent a lot of time telling me how she wanted to set me free for the summer and wanted to spend the summer with her old friends. Bottom line, she dumped me. That’s what I get for dating a woman two years older than me. I was not too upset. At most, Polly had been a friend with benefits.I had just hung up from talking to Polly when I heard mom’s car drive in and the garage door close. It was. " That was you that killed all those men?"Claire nodded sadly.Monica paced up and down the room, trying to arrive at a decision."You know they're looking for you?" Syntel?" You've got them scared. Ben's brokering a deal with them at the moment, trying to get Hunter Killers integrated into Oceania's military. Any massacres linked to synthetics will seriously jeopardize their plans. Syntel are paying him a small fortune to facilitate this deployment, including upgrading me as a sweetener." They. " Nothing I recall. He really wasn't active until these last few weeks, you know." Would you ask him and then let me know?" Why don't you ask him yourself?" He's pissed at me right now. Uh, don't tell him you're asking because of me." Well, I don't know why I'm doing this, but OK," Olivia agreed. "Maybe it's because I didn't like that bad mood he was in yesterday." You and me both," I commiserated. Then, after I thanked her, we both said, "Bang!" and disconnected.After that I made the bed, took.