Mr. Malone took me to one of the private rooms. It was basically a hotel room in the office area. I walked in wearing only heels, by his request. My j...w dropped. It was Ed Smith. I knew him through my husband. They were not friends. I didn’t even like him. We knew him through some charities both our families worked on. He was old money and his wife was a bitch. I hated her, whereas I only disliked Ed. Mr. Malone saw my face then heard Ed crow out, “Oh, this is perfect. I am going to have fun. "You should be proud to be the first large scale human test," Gernertold me, stepping backwards again. "Especially since your treatment costover 3 million dollars."I grimaced at him, not feeling the least bit of pride in being hisguinea pig. "I don't think so." The cost does rather limit the usefulness of my nanotechnology," Gerneradmitted, "but I thought that it would be productive to use for yourrecruitment." And how is this supposed to be recruitment?" I spat.Gerner just laughed, along with. He stood and smiled at her. “Hi Drew, I am Jasmine, are you ready?”“Y-yes I think so,” he replied.Jasmine extended her hand and took his. She lead him down a dimly lit hallway. “My station is right up here.”Drew followed close to her. Her hands were soft. He watched her hips sway as she walked. He could smell her perfume and it was intoxicating. He felt weak in his knees as she opened the door to her station and led him in. She dropped his hand and walked over to a cabinet. She opened the door. Good to know that when my roof goes I have someone to call.” She was up the next morning making coffee, happy to know she had the entire weekend to herself though with the possibility of Jorge dropping by in the mid-afternoon, or maybe Alex. Either would have made her happy. And then the doorbell rings, and there’s a delivery guy with a half dozen roses, a silver carafe of coffee, and bagels for two. Oh, and a note with Paul’s name and number, nothing more. Edy rolls her eyes and calls the.