I am forbidden to keep records or report the employees for making personal use of the bots.” “Well, there’s one violation I’ll never commit. How the hell did he do that?” “He changed my programming. “He’s probably some pathetic troll who couldn’t get laid if he had a ton of credits.” 5 Laurann Dohner “He had sex with the bots.” “There’s a huge violation. Why aren’t you bitching about him breaking the rules? Did you screech about violations he committed?” “He is incredibly handsome and sexy.” Megan snorted immediately. He shouldn’t have ordered you to do that. Master never did.” Megan rolled her sky-blue eyes. “It is against regulations to turn the cameras on in the client rooms. No one had told her she couldn’t leave the employee quarters, couldn’t interact with other living beings, or that she’d have to put up with Clara’s annoying artificial personality.

She’d been desperate enough to transfer to a floating whorehouse in space four months ago since she’d needed the higher salary to pay off debts. He was unlike anything she’d ever seen and her one bright spot in a dismal job working as the programmer on Folion.

It should be a crime to cover up that perfect, dusky-gray body, she decided.

Her attention returned to one of the screens where the sexiest man she’d ever seen slowly dressed. It didn’t help cool her temper by much but at least she wasn’t ready to try to escape the employee quarters and travel three decks to yank out Clara’s motherboards. She took a deep breath as she counted to ten. If I ever meet the guy who had this job before me, I’m going to kill him for screwing up a perfectly good computer.

Touching Ice by Laurann Dohner