" You still have feelings for him?" Gus asked, wondering if he really wanted to know."That's personal, Gus," she said, a flare of temper showing."I th...ought we were personal. Was I mistaken?" Drop it, Gus. I don't want to talk about it," she said, lowering her head to gaze into her coffee mug."Okay, it's dropped. Now, what about his proposal?" It's good, Gus. He can do the job at slightly less than our current guy. Rocco will be on the job every day, so we don't have to worry about supervision.. Itcan get us into Cybertronics, but we will have to hook it up to ourmainframe and manipulate some of the data on it's chip first," Christinaexplained."We usually just throw pleasure bots to the young men to use before weterminate them, but in this case we should keep her in good condition andtry not to upset her primary companionship and affection programming toomuch," Mark added.Simon lifted Jennifer's face again and scrutinised her."God she's beautiful. Shame she's deformed otherwise I'd. "I'm not going to tell you if you keep pestering me to do it. If I love you, then I'll tell you myself. You won't have to force the words out of me." I already know you do, Jimmy, but hearing you say you do is like the next step for us. Until you tell me you do, we can't go past where we are now."In a funny way, I found myself knowing what she meant by that. It was like something finally clicked on inside my brain. Telling her I loved her wasn't the final step that I'd been treating it as. It took a hundred acres to feed one cow ... but there were millions of acres and just a few cows ... at first. Timber was sparse on the plains but our Sacred hills had timber. The most grievous lie was that the plains were uninhabited by humans and had been for millions of years.The Crow bred far faster than the People and they gobbled our lands; Growing Room they said. The Pawnee snipped; a piece here, a corner there. Of course we fought back ... then the Crow and Pawnee allied with the.