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monthly meeting he had to sit through was every bit as excruciating as usual.
    As the initial funder and one of three out-of-the-box-thinking founders of Evolution R&D, he should probably care more about the money side, but he didn’t. As head engineer at one of the most renowned prosthetic research and development companies in the world, he’d rather be in his lab, putting his time to better use.
    Simon, who oversaw the therapy and testing side, sat to his left, drawing what appeared to be a…mermaid? JT shook his head. Not even a mermaid could swim with boobs that big. Simon scribbled
Do your own
at the top of his paper.
    Their CFO and friend, Lynn Summers, sent them a warning look. Of course she sat attentively, further solidifying her position as the grown-up of their trio, a fact she reminded them of on a regular basis. Smart and honest, Lynn had been in rehab with them after a jealous ex had purposely burned a third of her body. She was married now and pregnant, and one of the strongest people he knew.
    He didn’t even want to draw a mermaid. If he drew anything, it would be Paige.
    After sitting with her at the diner he wanted to sit with her more. He wanted to ask her questions, listen to her talk, make her smile. But then what?
    The meeting ended, and the last of the financiers filed out of the room. Lynn leaned back in her chair, her massive belly protruding like a ticking time bomb. “You’re both grounded.”
    JT shrugged. “Hey, I wasn’t the one doodling the
Playboy
version of The Little Mermaid.”
    “Oh, for God’s sake.” Lynn peered across the table, laughing when Simon slid his hand over his paper.
    An odd threesome, but they’d bonded through circumstance: the statuesque blonde, the Polynesian giant, and…not quite sure what he was. But when he’d sold his first biomechanics patent, he’d used the money to make the place the three of them had dreamed up one afternoon after rehab a reality.
    “What?” Simon asked, trying hard for innocent. “Why are you still here, anyway?” Simon swung his gaze to JT. “I thought we told her not to come back.”
    “We did.”
    “I swear, if she has that baby here…” Simon pointed a serious finger. “Do not have that baby here.”
    “Thank you, Simon, but I’ll tell you what I told my loving husband. I’m the one walking around like a beached whale and I’ll have this baby any damn place I please.” She finished with one of those scary female smiles meant to silence males.
    “Jeez. Hormones,” Simon muttered.
    “Dude,” JT warned before Lynn stabbed him with a pen.
    Lynn rolled her eyes like they were annoying little brothers, exactly how she thought of them. “Were you two even paying attention?”
    “What exactly were we supposed to be paying attention to?” JT asked, which gained him another narrow-eyed look from Lynn.
    “Yeah,” Simon agreed. “I thought you loved us. Why should we be tortured?”
    “Because I’m feeling crappy and miserable, and I want someone to join me? Where are you on the new arm thingy?”
    JT smiled, appreciating that Lynn didn’t do any better with his technical speak than he did with accountant talk. “Farther than we were yesterday but not nearly far enough.” He and his team were currently developing a new and more dexterous finger function for the existing robotic arm. Specifically, a joint that would allow the fingers to move fast enough to keep up with neural impulses.
    “I read our German competitor was getting close,” she added.
    He nodded. He’d read that too and he felt the pressure. “You can’t rush genius.” Though he had to if he wanted to win the patent race. Of course he understood the importance, so did Simon. Even if the guy liked to goof off, he was sharp. The sale of another patent would fund another year or more of research and allow them to offer free assistance to more people.
    “Okay. Obviously I’ll work other funding angles, but this would be huge.” Lynn pushed