Single Wired Female (Wired for Love Book 2)
about this time period, this Transcendence Age that Bonnie was living in, was that across the globe, healthcare was a right and not a privilege. Bonnie decided to take advantage of this but she thought that it would be too embarrassing to ask Sal to dig up information about her OB/GYN.
    She took a cab from her apartment down to a private hospital. She walked in and gave a false name to the clerk, who got her an appointment with a doctor named Saul Hearne. When the clerk tried to scan her for identification, Bonnie thought that she would discover her false identity. She stood frozen and watched the clerk intently, but nothing came up inside of the database. This sent a red flag wailing inside of her head. Had Sal erased her identity during the investigation? It would only be thorough if he did.
    The clerk went through the motions of asking her questions in order to build a new medical file. Bonnie couldn’t tell when she first engaged her but after ten minutes of questions she decided that the clerk was an android.
    “Are you a machine?” she asked suddenly, and the older black woman looked up from her computer with a stoic look on her face.
    “I am an android, yes, Mrs. Surefire. Is that a problem?” she asked, pausing to wait for an answer.
    “No, not at all. It’s just that you just seem so real,” Bonnie said while simultaneously fanning her hands as if to say, “go on.”
    The woman winked and went back to punching in the information, and Bonnie looked to see if anything in her appearance should have given her away.
    “Do you feel like an android?” she asked, and the woman kept typing without bothering to look up at her.
    “I’m sorry but I’m unable to process that level of question,” she said before facing Bonnie once again.
    An advanced-looking machine with an older, limited core , Bonnie thought. “Do you have a home? Um, does one of the doctors take you home at night when you all close up? Or, do you just sit here doing clerk stuff all the time?” she pressed.
    “You ask a lot of android-related questions, Mrs. Surefire. Is this appointment a legitimate one?” the woman asked suddenly.
    “What’s that supposed to mean? Of course it’s legit,” Bonnie snapped. “Seriously, did they program you to be a jerk, or did you pick that up from humans?”
    “I am sorry if that offended you, Mrs. Surefire, but your line of questioning indicates that you are either a robotics enthusiast or someone that has an interest in our practice that goes beyond patient care. You have triggered my warning algorithm at core level yellow, which means that you are a vendor, pretending to need our doctor so that you can have him in a room for solicitation.”
    “Not quite, Lisa,” Bonnie said sarcastically, using the name written on the woman’s lapel. “I’m here to make sure that all of my female business is working and there is nothing that I want to sell to your doctor.”
    The android smiled warmly before speaking. “I am sorry for the suspicions, Mrs. Surefire. I have taken down all of the information I need. Please report to room 305, which is the fifth room on the third floor. Once inside you must remove your clothes and put on one of our robes. The doctor will be in to see you in just a few minutes.”
    Bonnie gathered her handbag and scoffed at the android before crossing the empty lobby to take the elevator up three floors. She was feeling good, especially after telling the android off, and now she just needed to know about her menstruation.
    “You fooled Lisa, congratulations,” said the red-headed doctor as he came through the door an hour after Bonnie had put on the robe.
    She was already annoyed by the length of the wait but wasn’t surprised since it looked as if Hearne was the only doctor working that night. He was young and sharp, and as he walked up to her she felt uncomfortable with having him check her out.
    “I know that you would prefer a woman, but I am a professional, Rita,” he said

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