Free Single Wired Female (Wired for Love Book 2) by Greg Dragon Page B

down and crossed her legs. It was such a human thing to do that it made Tricia smile at her. She used her hands to brush back her hair, inhaled, and then blew air up into her bangs.
    “I don’t remember much about my former life. I get glimpses. Just small sparks of memories that come and go, mostly when I power down and sit at low charge, awaiting daylight.”
    Tricia leaned against the wall with her arms still crossed. She felt hopeful that Mary would remember something. “Tell me what you remember. It doesn’t have to make sense,” she said.
    “A building full of bald people standing in neat rows beneath a brilliant white light. Men, women, children of all sizes, I want to say they were machines, humanoid prisoners, like I was before you unrestrained me. There’s a memory of that and one of me being in a bed with a man … a doctor … doing things.” She stopped and sighed as if this memory came with a lot of weight. “They didn’t bother to wipe those memories, so those more than any are pretty vivid in my mind.”
    Mary stopped talking and then looked at Tricia. “Do you think that you could erase those?” she asked. “You can program our kind, so maybe you could take those terrible memories away.”
    “You’re unrestrained now, Mary. I think that you should learn to do it yourself. If you don’t and something else happens, it will be very hard for you to live with it.”
    Mary nodded and bit her lip. She touched a finger to her forehead and then looked up again. “I remember the building being very tall. When I was placed by a window, we were up high, higher than anywhere else.”
    This new revelation made Tricia uncross her arms and she recalled seeing an extremely tall building on her egress from Seattle. It was against the sky, large and looming, like a tower built to honor the gods.
    She tried to recall the words that were written near its apex: Fritz and Isaac Electronics . This was in blue lettering that hovered above a glowing sea of white. What were the chances that Mary would have been shipped from Seattle to end up working for a bar in Tampa, Florida? It seemed too convenient so Tricia’s hope was beginning to dissipate.
    “Can you remember where this building was?” she asked Mary, but the android shook her head and shrugged her shoulders.
    “I wish I could, Tricia, but all I can remember are those visuals. I know that it isn’t here in Tampa; the landscape just doesn’t make sense for it to be here. I was thinking that it may be in New York or even Chicago where skyscrapers are the norm. One being as tall as the one I remember, would only make sense being there.”
    “What about Seattle? Have you considered Seattle? I know there aren’t a ton of skyscrapers there, but they happen to have one of the best centers for robotics in the world. And with the advancements in technology and the sciences that have been coming out of Washington, I would think that androids of your caliber would be built out there,” Tricia said.
    Mary seemed to be in deep thought. “I wouldn’t rule Seattle out. It just seems like a pretty long way to take me just to have me work a bar.”
    “Yeah, but you could be shipped just like anything else. Chances are this owner wanted a pretty, blonde android that was advanced enough to handle things without him having to be here. So they paid a lot of money and ordered you in and here you are, serving drinks.”
    Mary made a pouting face and then looked off to the side. “Wow, when you put it like that, it tends to drive home the point of what we are to them. Well, you’re right, I could have been shipped here. But that doesn’t explain what you said about me having a former life. Plus those other memories that I want gone. It just doesn’t add up to me being an android shipped in to do what I am doing.”
    Tricia turned around and examined an area of the wall while processing what Mary was saying. “Well, there’s a lot of strange things going on in the last