"You too, huh?" God she hoped she wasn't wrong about this. Then the look on Hal's face changed, too. First th...re was relief, and a small smile. Then the smile became hungry, those deep blue eyes roaming her body as she stood still, her small hand on his cock through his jeans. She felt his cock twitch just as his eyes met hers, dark with need. He leaned down, slowly, and brushed his lips on her mouth. Dena gasped as the sensation. "You don't owe me money," I insisted — again. "Well, outside of the $500 you insisted was a loan. Mr. Gomez owes me money. I will recoup it full, I can assure you that. The money is his responsibility but I will be damned if I give it back to him. I figure it is rightfully yours for the shape he left you in."Janet Conroy turned to me and asked me a question I didn't want to answer."Do you plan to kill him?" she asked.I looked up at the sky. Raindrops fell into my eyes. I was silent."Stupid. As for the rewriting of the host's memory, that would begin in a week or so, he was hoping that would work as well as possible as that in itself would be the final defining as to whether it was a success or not.Underneath his house, Gerald had designed a three-floor subbasement that he had created a private lab for the slightly more unethical research he often dived into. Sometimes, ethics could easily hamper a scientist from saving lives. He tended to work around them when he had to and as. Hailey opened a large number of credit cards in the last year and maxed them all out. Her bank accounts have also been drained, and the firm has no other way of getting our money back. I truly wish their was something I could do to assist you, but your friend has already been processed and chipped. Even if we did somehow prevent her sale, by this point she has lost her citizenship and will no longer be able to live a normal life. Besides, there is still the matter of the nearly half a million.