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her as the
doors opened and she didn’t step in. He then realized her silence
was because she didn’t remember. Her silence was horror. Horror at
knowing exactly what Simon was going to say.
    “ It was him?” she asked in
a tiny voice.
    He nodded confirmation.
    “ How do you
know?”
    He spoke as if she should know this already.
“Latrice has sent me photos of him coming and going into the
Lansing office from her phone. I recognized him the moment he
stepped foot in here yesterday, but I was surprised he returned
today.”
    Phoebe felt so sick to her stomach, she ran
to the bathroom to relieve what little contents she had inside.
     

Chapter 11
     
    His phone was blowing up. Madeline had called
Jacoby five times since he had come into town.
    Desmond was probably the one who alerted her
that they were back in town. He was usually the one who spoke with
the clientele for Lawrence.
    Jacoby finally answered her call a little
after midnight picking up the receiver with a quiet, “Hello.”
    “ How was Detroit?” Madeline
asked quietly.
    “ Same as before,” he
answered.
    “ Were you busy? Because I
wasn’t.”
    “ No.”
    There was a long pause at this point. Usually
when she asked this question, he would say, “I’ll be right over.”
This time was different. His body wasn’t into going over there
tonight.
    Madeline took the initiative and said, “Why
don’t you come over and join me for a little fun?”
    There was another long pause, before he said,
“I’m tired. I would be useless, tonight, Madeline.”
    “ You won’t have to do any
work. Just lie back and let me take care of you.”
    Again more silence before he said, “No
thanks. I’ll call you later.” He hung up and tossed the phone over
on the couch not bothering to replace it on the base and then he
went to bed after a long cold shower. He was hornier than a dog in
heat, but Madeline couldn’t satisfy his desires about now. No one
could, except Phoebe.
    He cursed to himself.
    About thirty minutes later, Lawrence called.
“I just got a call from Madeline,” was the first sentence out his
mouth.
    “ Yeah?” Jacoby asked, with
a matter of fact tone of voice. “It is kind of late for clientele
to be calling you, isn’t it?”
    “ She was calling to discuss
how things went in Detroit. She wanted to know if the upgrade went
okay.” There was silence on the line for a moment. Lawrence
continued, “I told her it went great.” A pregnant silence and then
Lawrence said, “She asked about you.” Jacoby didn’t respond. “She
asked me how were you and how did things go for you in
Detroit?”
    “ What did you tell
her?”
    “ I told her things went
great. Everything was fine.”
    Jacoby cursed under his breath. “Do you think
Desmond opened his big mouth about the incident?”
    “ No, but who’s to say that
office assistant want. He looks like a faggot gossiper if you ask
me,” Lawrence sneered.
    Again Jacoby cursed. “She’s going to get
fired you know if Madeline finds out.”
    “ What make you think
Madeline doesn’t mind sharing?”
    “ She doesn’t. There’s no
strings attached, but I think she will take an exception to the
rule when it’s her own office manager. I don’t give a shit at how
good Phoebe is at running her office, she won’t like it that I’m
fucking her too.”
    “ It was only one time,”
Lawrence said. “I think you’re making a big thing out of
nothing.”
    “ I don’t think I am,”
Jacoby said very concerned now over Phoebe. “I should drive down
there tomorrow and tell her about Madeline and I.”
    “ Why? What does she need to
know about it?”
    “ Because I think she
should.”
    “ Are you listening to
yourself, Jacoby? The girl doesn’t want anything to do with you. I
know this is hard to believe, but why should she care on whether
you were intimate with her boss? You’ll spread unnecessary business
around the office and she’ll hate you more.”
    Jacoby had to admit Lawrence made a