Chapter Six
Erik grumbled under his breath. Staring out the window of Jia’s new flitter at the stream of traffic wasn’t doing much to distract him from the day’s irritations.
He would have loved to blow off steam after work at Big Bill’s, but Jia was right. It was ridiculously expensive, and even his vast savings would go dry if he started hitting the place up weekly.
Jia glanced at him from the driver’s seat. “You’re not mad because I’m letting Emma drive, are you? I figure it’s better her than the autodrive.”
“You’re just trying to suck up to her,” Erik grumped.
Emma snorted. For some reason, she liked to be in her holographic form more often in Jia’s flitter than in the MX 60. “It’s working. I don’t like not having a body, and my preferred body has such a lovely array of sensors an
