Having a robot as a “protector”. Part 2

The first part of this story was posted here.

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Alice came to supervise the process, snacks, tables, and alcohol. A lot of it. Players always risk more if they have a little bit of alcohol in their veins.

John was more than happy, his open house was a success and with the help of Alice it would be the main talk of the night. He was totally back to his life.

Alexandra was a sensation, everyone was happy to be around her, she did well and gave the impression of being in control of all the house. Lights, temperature, music all were controlled by her to please everyone present.

The sun was rising when everybody started to leave and he went to bed, he was exhausted but with a feeling of triumph he didn't expect.

Later, he felt a hand on his arm. A tough hand and he turned back to tell Alex that is not nice at all, and to never ever woke him again. But when he opened his eyes the ugly face of Pedro “ El Cobrador” was in front of his eyes. He was the person in charge of "disappearing" people, John knows well what that means.

— Hey Pedro! Long time. What happened? Why are you here?. I've already sent the money.
— John! Pal, you know. My boss told me to pay you a visit. Nice house. Very nice security system, it cost me the world to break it. But, no one better than me at this stuffs.
— Yeah yeah, well you can't blame me, I have to protect myself. John said — while thinking: where the hell is Alice. This isn't right. She is supposed to protect both the house and me.
— The boss said you owe him more money. It's disrespectful that you wait so much time to pay your debt and, what a surprise, to buy this nice house at the same time — says Pedro.
— What! Wait a minute pal, I paid every penny of my debt. This, this I mine. I've earned it.
— You haven’t earned anything in your life John. So, it’s pay time. And the boss wants the house for him, it turns out you really have good taste. You can move out this afternoon and leave it all like it is.
—Whaaat? Are you crazy? I’m not giving this away, I pay my debt, that’s all. YOU can leave now.
That was enough to put the big hands of Pedro on John's face, giving him a black eye.
—I’ll ask you again John. Are you going to do what the boss wants?
— No, no, no – John said, like a little boy answering his mama.

Pedro smashed him again, and again, and again. John felt like he was going to die. Pedro didn’t give him the chance to talk again. Then, suddenly John hears a noise, like something cracking. And the enormous body of Pedro fall by his side. Eyes open. Alex was standing, her hand opened to release Pedro.

John suddenly felt very happy, finally she was there, and save him from Pedro. Then he fainted.

Later, he woke up, with pain, Alex was taking care of him, she had already put everything in order, cleaned all the house and the mess Pedro created. Then, he walk to the window and saw Pedro’s car, what? Why is he still here? And asked Alex, where is he?

—He won’t bother you again John, don’t worry.
—But, his car, how did he leave without a car? Alex, where is he?
—He left, totally. I took care of it. I’ll take care of the car too.

She left the room, went outside, lift the car, walk to the reef and throw it quite far from the shore.

John saw it all with his eyes opened like plates. What would she do that? Where is Pedro? What’s wrong with her?

—See? Everything is perfect John, rest. You need to recover.

Days go by, and he was like new, Alex did everything he needed. But he felt something was wrong. The Pedro issue didn’t leave him. So he called a friend, to know what people were talking about the disappearance of Pedro.

—Somebody was going to kill him, someday. He was a bad bad person. Nobody is missing him.

That night, when he came home, Alex was in charging mode so he was able to ask the mainframe for an activity update for the last 10 days.

The report came, the first lines were quite normal, then he reads: house in danger / security system brake / take action /……owner need help / take action : and between all the possibilities the one selected was :eliminate menace / eliminating / ….. disappear body.

He was in shock, she had broken one of the three laws of robotics, something that no robot should do under any circumstances. “Do not harm any human or allow any human to be damaged under any circumstances” That couldn’t be possible.

From this day he began to see her differently, feeling like she was spying him.

She never frightened him, she always behaves the same. He even returned to his normal life and he even convinced his lover to live in the new house, and Alex always treats everybody fine.

But he knows the truth. Knowing that Alex could kill a human and cover the trace never leaves his mind. Every day he lives with that anxiety, what if she decides to kill me now?? — he thinks...