”“Look, Malcolm,” Rick says, standing up himself. The sound of the chair sliding back echoes through the lab and catches Malcolm’s attention. ...“I like you. I like the work you do. And I understand your personal relationships at home are important, but I am also here to make money. If some other company beats us to this then yes, we’ll still make money when we finish, but it won’t be as much. You will not be able to move upward either.”“Well, what am I supposed to do, Rick?” Malcolm asks,. We were both on facebook her on hers and me on mine. Well a friend sent her a private message. It was one of our son’s buddies. She opened the message to find a dick pic from this young man he is 19 she immediately showed me. She thought that must have been a mistake all of a sudden before she could type anything another message came from him apologizing saying I totally didn’t mean to send that to you I am so embarrassed. She typed don’t be pretty good looking from where we are sitting. He. So exchanging another kiss I took her hand, and we started walking towards the exit.We passed Nancy on the way, and she did a double-take at us leaving together. Drew waved, and I did as well. She started laughing and blew us both a kiss as we headed out the door. Hmmm, maybe Drew was an occasional “friend with benefits” with Nancy as I was. I already knew that Nancy played for both teams.I asked her if she wanted to drive with me or follow me in her car, and she bit her lip then said she would. After two cups of coffee, his machine pinged twice, he removed the flash drive and closed the cover. We continued our conversation for a while longer then casually got up and left.On the way back to his chateau, I learned that the magic program was on the flash drive - that the laptop was useless without it. The first ping I heard was the incoming message, and the second pair of pings signaled that the program had secured the computer and had done a secure erase on the flash drive. It was.