9781910981729 by Alexander Hammond

Author:Alexander Hammond [Hammond, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Nazca Plains
Published: 2010-12-15T20:00:00+00:00

THE TRUTH GAME

They’d dated twice. Not even proper dates really, more like impromptu rendezvous. Even that had been a struggle. She was just so distant. Aloof, almost, but not quite. She was brilliant, certainly. Her take on the challenges that the company worked on was nothing less than revolutionary. Silicon Valley had more than its fair share of electronics geniuses. He should know; he was one of them. She was aware enough to have ascertained this about him. She knew he studiously tried to avoid ‘geekness’ but was aware enough to know that if he relaxed for even a moment, he’d forget to wear his contact lenses or cut his hair and start obsessing on obscure electronics conundrums or, even worse, comic books. She guessed he’d been lured away from MIT just in time. Now, when his counterparts were busy writing machine code late into the night or discussing infantile science fiction novels over bottles of inferior wine, she approved of the fact that he frequented the gym and tried to direct his ever-active mind to rest.

She was tall, very tall indeed and she walked with a grace that she knew he’d never seen outside of a Hollywood movie. Nobody knew quite where she had come from. The rumours were that she’d met the president of the research department at some kind of soiree. She had evidently offhandedly offered a solution to one of the company’s more obscure technical problems with a leap of logic that had him choking on his bourbon. She was hired on the spot. No questions asked and certainly no references. What she’d contributed in that brief conversation had evidently negated the need for years of research. Watching her work, the geek could believe it.

Her work patterns were odd. No doubt about it. She stared into space a lot. That in itself wasn’t unusual in their business. But what was unusual was her work area was uncluttered with notes and trial equations. It seemed she just thought about a problem for a long time then just committed it to writing. That being said, she didn’t often come up with anything but when she did, Jesus, it made the rest of the group look like kindergarten students.

She’d noticed him on day one. She noticed the fact that he tried to affect a persona with at least a modicum of personality. In fact he stood head and shoulders above his peer group literally and figuratively. She found him intelligent in his way and certainly the most interesting person in the lab, because at least he tried. In itself said something. Mind you though, even being the most interesting man in the room didn’t mean very much to her. They were pretty much all children, but, she had to try and make a life for herself which meant mixing with inferiors. It wasn’t their fault of course. She was intelligent enough not to judge them for it.

She’d selected him because she had needs, needs that had gone unsatisfied for far too long.

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