His mind seemed to have been burned out a little also, so that his speech would ramble from time to time. But all in all he was a gentle man and young...Victoria had found a special place in her heart for him. Somewhere deep inside herself she knew she liked this relationship because it was safe. All of the innocent young girl's natural cravings drew her toward men, her awakened hormones building an appreciation into her vibrant young senses for the deep sound of a masculine voice, the virile. My patents were licensed to Mathews for a very nice amount of money, but my lawyer, a sneaky bastard if there was one, slipped and non-exclusive clause in the license agreement so I had ‘Go To Hell’ money and could and did license the patents to other companies.I was ethical, to an extent, I never shopped or licensed to Mathews competition.Because we had been dating before I was hired, the non-frat of contract specifically excluded Nancy. We dated for a little over a year when I asked her to. By 3:03 the meeting was over and we took a short break.At 3:30 we had a full staff meeting and made all the necessary announcements to the staff. Several questions were raised about past practices and I said all policy would be reviewed and if anyone felt they had been unjustly treated in the past all or any of us would like to hear about it and would take what steps we felt were appropriate to remedy it.One of the main contentions about which project was selected was the selection process. "Helen had looked at me and smiled."It's true, Sis," I had insisted. "When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see an awful lot of junk. You think it's all important, down to the last hair out of place. You can't be selective about yourself, so you never really know how you see yourself."The doorbell had rung then. Helen had jumped up, her lips forming the name Jack questioningly. She had gone to the door and I had heard the voice of a woman.It had turned out to be a local friend of Helen's.