At the table next to her’s two men had sat down with a bottle of expensive champagne. They were neatly dressed in white shirts and black pants. One ...of the smiled at her and she winked back at him. Back in her village you seldom saw black men and it wasn’t until she moved to Milan that she had actually interacted with them. The two men next to her were giants — well over six feet and broad. Their muscles didn’t seem to be from a gym but more from doing sports.She knew they were talking about. He wasn’t at all sure that security would be able to do much if the fembots decided to break out of the lab. Equally he was convinced that he would be able to get at the fembots’ code, but he didn’t see that there was anything else he could do.Amanda Howard smiled for almost a tenth of a second and then said, “Well Mr Haverstein, if that’s all for now. I do need to finish looking at that revised warranty agreement.”“That’s fine Mandy,” Haverstein responded. Amanda visibly winced; she hated. ..” she sighed.“It’s all in the past now, Kathy. We’re great friends. Things are working out for both of us.”“Yes, they are!”When I dropped her at her house, I walked her to the door. She hugged me and gave me a soft French kiss, her signal to me that she was available in the future should things change with Kurt. That, and her statement that, in the end, we could be good together if we ever wanted to give it a try. She wasn’t expecting it or waiting around for it, but she wasn’t going to let. He would make an excellent husband for you. He reminds me a lot of me, perhaps because he shares my power." What makes you think I want anything to do with you or this place?" I asked him, staring at him through narrow, hateful eyes.He gave me a look of disappointment. "I thought your attitude would be like that. You have too much of your mother in you. Perhaps I left you with her too long."He gave a gesture to the cell door that held Lucas, and it flew open. Two of the hobgoblins in the room.