Late in spring Constance asked if I minded if she visited for a week with her travel chum from premarital days. Her friend lived two or three hours no...th of us and Constance’ mother had agreed to let her borrow their second car for the trip. I said I thought it would be nice for her to have some time away, of course. (Actually, I did think it would be nice for her.) She planned to leave on the Friday morning to avoid weekend traffic. When I told Dorothy about Constance’ plans she became so. " Turning my body over to Science, you mean," he said."Yes. But doing it with the backing of this guy — your benefactor - whatshisface." Cosgrove." Right. Cosgrove. He could work toward seeing to it that you didn't get stepped on by an army of doctors and researchers." You've already gotten me to thinking about it, a lot more than I was before," he told her. "I promise you I'll keep on thinking about it." I want to go with you," she said suddenly."Really? ... Just like that?" No. Not 'just like. That would be safer, when she inevitably found out what had happened to her best friend.But ... after seeing what happened to Marcie when she was presented with evidence of something that didn’t match her altered memories, I didn’t really want to take any risk.And so I’d gone in the other direction.“You were jealous of Marcie for getting to sleep with me, weren’t you?”“Yes.”“And you were jealous of me for getting to hook up with Marcie, right?”“Right.”A week ago ... hell, even a few days ago,. Burke had never tried anything sexual, and probably was too nice to ever try anything, but the forced intimacy of their trip had made her surprisingly comfortable about losing her privacy. Burke shook his head. ‘Five seconds. And within five minutes of going under, I’d gotten your clothes off, found out the names of three girlfriends without close family members or friends who would miss them, and gotten a signature on a document giving me power of attorney over you. I’m beginning to suspect.
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