More human than human, that was the advertising. She circled him slowly, watching the way his eyes opened and followed her, his fur reaching out, almost, toward her, a stray strand wrapping around her wrist through the cage bars. "Always wanting a pairbond," the seller said sourly. "Thought I was going to make a mint on these, but they're more than ( Read more... )

The mobile search activated as soon as she realized that he hadn't just left her; he'd taken her research with him. That research was something he wasn't even supposed to know about, and realizing that he did made her wonder what else he knew that he wasn't supposed to--and what she didn't know that she ought to have. Because her prototype was ( Read more... )

She pulled herself out of the orgy as soon as she felt her mind begin to clear. Then the pain sank in. Her entire body ached and throbbed. Hands grabbed at her ankles. She couldn't run, but she could stomp. She felt the fanny pack around her waist, relieved that it had survived this bout. She had, she knew, eight hours of clarity, and four of them ( Read more... )

It wasn't as wonderful having a millionaire girlfriend as all the tabloids would have you believe, he thought sourly as he stared at yet another tabloid picture of the two of them cuddled together at a table while the flashbulbs popped and the recorders hovered. It had been in the beginning; suddenly he was somebody. Star glamor shone on him, if ( Read more... )