Jennifer Government: A Novel by Max Barry

Author:Max Barry [Barry, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7634-5
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2003-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

44 Collaboration

Violet pushed END CALL on the airphone. It had a long cord that was meant to retract into her seat, but she couldn’t get it to work. She caught Nathaniel ExxonMobil looking at her across the aisle. “Trouble at home?”

“It’s fine,” Violet said. She didn’t want to talk to Nathaniel right now.

“It’s hard for your loved ones to understand why you have to leave them. Why you have to do certain things. That’s something I’ve learned.”

“Things are fine.” She found the right button. The phone retracted.

“You didn’t tell him about the deal?”

Violet looked down at the contract. It gave ExxonMobil full use of her software, plus her services to activate it. It gave Violet, if her product worked, just under three million dollars. “It’s nothing to do with him. This is mine.”

“All right,” Nathaniel said, and returned to his journal.

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