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A CRUEL REVENGE HAS BEEN PLOTTED AGAINST YOU TO ENAMOR YOU AND THEN LEAVE YOU AND CAUSE YOU TO KILL YOURSELF.

 

 

The message had no signature on the bottom. Pablo gasped when he read it. He thought, I don’t know why, but I believe you. Nevertheless I hope that you reveal your identity soon. He forwarded the email to all of his siblings and to his best friend, Veronica.

 

Veronica kept a lookout for Pablo. From here on, he gave her the password to his email account and she took it, forever. She would change the password and never give it back. Pablo didn‘t have email from that moment on, and he didn‘t have accounts on any web site. Veronica took all of his accounts. He would make purchases at his favorite online stores as a guest.

 

Veronica would play this game with Emma, the woman that Trent hired to do his dirty work. She would pretend to be Pablo and enamor her. The consequences would be deadly.

 

Robinson found out about the plot and decided to play a game of his own. No one would ever destroy someone that belonged to his species because all those living things were good and they all would stick up for each other. It would be two men enamoring Emma, a cybernetic man and a man in her real life. Someone would die, and this love between them would be anything but real.

 

Emma started contacting the man she thought was Pablo, on a chat room, by pure coincidence. Emma and Veronica chatted for hours, and they took it to the instant messenger. Emma never demanded to see Pablo on webcam. This was a big mistake.

 

Robinson took advantage of the fact that he looked exactly like Pablo, and he pretended to be Pablo on webcam three days after Emma and Pablo supposedly met online. They got on a webcam and microphone conversation. Both Robinson and Emma‘s webcams had integrated microphones. The game started.

 

“Hello, beautiful!”

“You think I‘m beautiful?”

“Yes.”

Smiling, she said, “You‘re not so bad yourself, Pablo Milian!”

 

Robinson thought Poor fool! Then, he said, “Way to go, Emma Kane! I just got in and you‘re already calling me beautiful!”

 

Caleb was taking Robinson‘s place at his office.

“That‘s right because you are.”

 

To perpetuate the lie, Robinson had moved to Pablo‘s house. Pablo had moved to Robinson‘s house, and although everyone knew that they had switched places, they were treating Pablo like a king.

 

Robinson said, “So, tell me more about you.”

 

“What do you want to know?”

 

“Am I the most handsome of all the boyfriends you‘ve had? I‘m not asking you how many you‘ve had.”

 

“I haven‘t had many boyfriends. I‘ve had like five in all my life.” She was telling the truth. “However, it amazes me that you already consider yourself my boyfriend!”

 

“Aren‘t I your boyfriend after we had cybersex on IM two days ago?”