Killer Spring by Kay Bigelow

Author:Kay Bigelow [Bigelow, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948232401
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

After Jardain had left the night before, Leah went to bed. She’d needed to process the evening that had started out so romantically and ended on a note of sadness and disappointment. What did I expect? She had an off-planet flight to catch. If the roles were reversed, I wouldn’t be able to stay the night either.

The next morning, Leah was standing in front of her living room window watching ships moving up the harbor as they headed toward the ocean, wondering what she would have done if Jardain had been able to stay. Phuc, the woman has already seduced me. Even if I wanted to—and I don’t want to—I don’t think I could walk away from her.

“Here’s your morning coffee, Boss. Since you’re up with the sunrise, I thought you might need it to get going.”

“Rusty, thank you for last night. You really know how to create ambience.”

“Uh, thank you, Boss.”

“Call Cots and ask him to stop by on his way to work.”

“On it.”

Every once in a while, Rusty would remind Leah who created her. Leah knew Rusty’s language skills were improving daily. She didn’t want to know the extent of Rusty’s knowledge bank because she didn’t want to be intimidated by her butler.

Twenty minutes later, she heard a key being inserted into her front door and watched as Cots strolled in as if he owned the place.

“Good morning, Leah. You wanted to see me?”

“We need to talk, Cots.”

“Uh, oh,” he said as if he recognized from the tone of her voice this wasn’t going to be about work.

“I want you stop being intrusive in my life.”

“You’ve found out I programmed Rusty to report to me.”

“Yes, I have. I want the reports to stop now, Cots. I know why you wanted the reports, but it’s been two years since Quinn died, and I’ve moved on. While your concern then was warranted, it is no longer necessary, and it has become invasive.”

“Understood. I’ll take care of that right now, if you wish.”

“I’m glad you understand, and yes, I do want you to remove the reporting component of Rusty’s programming.”

“Consider it done.”

When Leah had gotten out of bed and gone to the bathroom for a shower, she’d found a note from Rusty on the bathroom counter. Attached to the note was an earbud. The note told her that if she wore the earbud, she’d be able to listen to her conversations. At the time, she wondered why Rusty was giving her that power. She’d stuck the earbud in her pocket intending to talk to Rusty about it. Now she understood why Rusty had wanted her to have it. She slipped the earbud into her ear.

“Rusty, I need to do a bit of reprogramming on you.”

“Are you shutting me down?”

“No, Rusty, I’m not. I am trusting Leah to know when she’s emerged from the dark place she was in when we moved here. You no longer will need to report to me about her activities unless she’s in danger.”

Cots returned to the living room a few minutes later.

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