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Authors: Karen Erickson
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this week, thank God.
“Well the way you write him, he’s sexy as hell. The response has been good from your first article with both negative and positive fan mail coming through. But you’re getting mail and that’s what’s important.” Zoe added a small pile of envelopes onto Stephanie’s desk. “There it is.”
Stephanie wrinkled her nose and picked up the already-opened letters. “Negative mail?”
“Oh yeah, we reviewed the letters just to make sure there were no threats or anything. It’s company policy. There’s nothing threatening or anything like that in the letters but you did have sex with a guy you didn’t know and wrote about it. The moralists are taking the high road and shoving you down onto the low one.”
“Wow, really.” Stephanie opened the first letter off the pile, wincing at the choice string of words in the first paragraph. Slut, giving it away and what kind of example are you? Hurtful words she didn’t want to read anymore.
She didn’t realize people would think less of her because of her choices.
“Don’t let it bother you, Steph. You should see the reaction Caleb is getting for his article.” Zoe rolled her eyes though her smile was huge. “Did you read it?”
Yes, of course she did though she’d hated every second of it. The woman hating Caleb had gone on a diatribe about how women were put on this earth to basically please men. “I did.”
“Pretty bloody awful, right? I knew it would garner a huge reaction and boy was I right. I bet sales went through the roof for that issue. We’ll know tomorrow in the morning meeting.”
Stephanie felt sick to her stomach. Here she was pouring her heart and soul into these articles and Caleb was writing merely to provoke. And Zoe was eating it up with a spoon.
“You two are still in stiff competition for the column, you know. Keep up the good work.” Zoe turned and walked away, her skinny butt sashaying in the form fitting black dress she wore and Stephanie wanted to aim a sharp pencil right for it.
Maybe she should find another subject. Not actually experience the sex but interview people instead. That way it wouldn’t be a first person account of her sex life but a fact-filled, informative article about the various fantasies people had.
Yeah hello, boring. Zoe would give the column to Caleb in a heartbeat if she went in that direction.
She needed to figure out a new angle. A hotter angle. Yes, the oral sex article was sexier than the first one but she needed to top even that.
Nibbling on her fingernail she stared blindly at the monitor, her mind flooded with memories of Justin. It had been three days since they spent the night at that horrible little hotel and her body still ached from the extreme workout he’d given her.
They’d gone at it all night long until she’d essentially begged him to take her back to her apartment. He’d seemed reluctant, waiting, as if he’d wanted her to ask him inside when he dropped her off but she had her roommate to deal with.
No way did she want that shrew Sia to find out she was having wild crazy monkey sex with Justin Hawkins. Plus she really didn’t want him to see how pitiful her apartment was.
And he was the one who lived in the big fancy house. Not that she knew that for sure but come on. He was wealthy and he had to live in some sort of outrageous mansion.
She was dying of curiosity to check it out but she didn’t push. She didn’t believe their relationship was that deep for her to demand something like that.
Ha. She wanted to snort. Couldn’t even consider what they had as an actual relationship and she definitely wouldn’t call it deep. It was fun, it was hot, and it was passionate. Combustible. All consuming.
And that was why she was glad for the break from him. He’d traveled with the Miners to an out of town game and when he’d told her his plans she hadn’t asked any questions. She wondered if he had difficulty letting go of his team.
He’d been with
“Well the way you write him, he’s sexy as hell. The response has been good from your first article with both negative and positive fan mail coming through. But you’re getting mail and that’s what’s important.” Zoe added a small pile of envelopes onto Stephanie’s desk. “There it is.”
Stephanie wrinkled her nose and picked up the already-opened letters. “Negative mail?”
“Oh yeah, we reviewed the letters just to make sure there were no threats or anything. It’s company policy. There’s nothing threatening or anything like that in the letters but you did have sex with a guy you didn’t know and wrote about it. The moralists are taking the high road and shoving you down onto the low one.”
“Wow, really.” Stephanie opened the first letter off the pile, wincing at the choice string of words in the first paragraph. Slut, giving it away and what kind of example are you? Hurtful words she didn’t want to read anymore.
She didn’t realize people would think less of her because of her choices.
“Don’t let it bother you, Steph. You should see the reaction Caleb is getting for his article.” Zoe rolled her eyes though her smile was huge. “Did you read it?”
Yes, of course she did though she’d hated every second of it. The woman hating Caleb had gone on a diatribe about how women were put on this earth to basically please men. “I did.”
“Pretty bloody awful, right? I knew it would garner a huge reaction and boy was I right. I bet sales went through the roof for that issue. We’ll know tomorrow in the morning meeting.”
Stephanie felt sick to her stomach. Here she was pouring her heart and soul into these articles and Caleb was writing merely to provoke. And Zoe was eating it up with a spoon.
“You two are still in stiff competition for the column, you know. Keep up the good work.” Zoe turned and walked away, her skinny butt sashaying in the form fitting black dress she wore and Stephanie wanted to aim a sharp pencil right for it.
Maybe she should find another subject. Not actually experience the sex but interview people instead. That way it wouldn’t be a first person account of her sex life but a fact-filled, informative article about the various fantasies people had.
Yeah hello, boring. Zoe would give the column to Caleb in a heartbeat if she went in that direction.
She needed to figure out a new angle. A hotter angle. Yes, the oral sex article was sexier than the first one but she needed to top even that.
Nibbling on her fingernail she stared blindly at the monitor, her mind flooded with memories of Justin. It had been three days since they spent the night at that horrible little hotel and her body still ached from the extreme workout he’d given her.
They’d gone at it all night long until she’d essentially begged him to take her back to her apartment. He’d seemed reluctant, waiting, as if he’d wanted her to ask him inside when he dropped her off but she had her roommate to deal with.
No way did she want that shrew Sia to find out she was having wild crazy monkey sex with Justin Hawkins. Plus she really didn’t want him to see how pitiful her apartment was.
And he was the one who lived in the big fancy house. Not that she knew that for sure but come on. He was wealthy and he had to live in some sort of outrageous mansion.
She was dying of curiosity to check it out but she didn’t push. She didn’t believe their relationship was that deep for her to demand something like that.
Ha. She wanted to snort. Couldn’t even consider what they had as an actual relationship and she definitely wouldn’t call it deep. It was fun, it was hot, and it was passionate. Combustible. All consuming.
And that was why she was glad for the break from him. He’d traveled with the Miners to an out of town game and when he’d told her his plans she hadn’t asked any questions. She wondered if he had difficulty letting go of his team.
He’d been with
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