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Jay?”
    “I won’t call anyone. It meant nothing. I was just angry
because I couldn’t stand the thought of you with someone else.”
    “Yeah, well, I don’t exactly like walking in and finding
you with three someone elses.”
    “Understood.”
    He kisses me and holds me. I fall asleep in his arms, my
entire body sore from the night I just had, but the real satisfaction comes
from having Mike’s arms around me.

Epilogue
    I sleep for so long that it is Tuesday night when I wake
up. Mike should be back soon, so I take a shower and wait for him. When he has
not arrived by midnight, I call his phone. It goes to voicemail. There is no
note and I worry that he changed his mind and left me. By one in the morning, I
am a mess. Finally, he calls me back.
    “Where have you been? I am worried sick.”
    “The thing is, Mike is a bit ... tied up at the moment.” A
woman’s voice comes over the line. “I think it might be a while. We have a lot
of lost time to make up for.”
    “Who is this?”
    “You don’t know me. My name is Maria. I worked for Mike a
few years ago, and he told me that he was not the settling down type. Seems you
might have changed his mind.”
    “What are you going to do to him?”
    “Nothing he has not done to me time and time again,” she
says and hangs up. I need to find him. Ms. Schulman is the only one who will
know how to find him. It looks like I am headed to the office even after I was
fired.

Part
II: Market Penetration
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    1 .
    I am in a panic when I get to the office the next day. The
flight back to Providence was awful, full of anxiety about Mike and what was
happening to him. Ms. Schulman is not in yet when I arrive and I can’t help but
laugh about the irony of being earlier than her. I suppose it is the byproduct
of truly caring about one’s job. She is flustered when she arrives, but I don’t
give her much time before I mention Maria.
    “Mike, I mean Mr. Arnauer, is in trouble. His former
assistant, Maria, has taken him and I need to know everything you know about
her.”
    Ms. Schulman looks legitimately upset, which is surprising.
I thought she was heartless, but she invites me into Mike’s office. It was only
a week ago when he was on his knees in front of me by this desk, his tongue
licking my pussy into submission.
    “I need you to sit, Jayni, while I go through some files.”
I do, but I am antsy. I tap my foot incessantly and I can tell it is annoying
her, but she says nothing. I think she is equally worried.
    “How long have you worked for Mike?” I ask.
    She smiles. “Mike?”
    “Mr. Arnauer?”
    “Jayni, I think it obvious your, shall we say, position
gives you intimate enough knowledge to refer to him as Mike.”
    I blush, realizing Ms. Schulman knows what Mike and I have
been doing on our business trips. I remember the interview as well; I should
have known then how much this place was going to get to me.
    “So how long have you worked for him?”
    “About thirty years. Since the company started.”
    I am surprised. “Really? Did you know Eileen?”
    She looks taken aback. “He told you about Eileen?”
    “He did. It was awful and he feels so guilty still.”
    “She was a lovely woman and James was a wonderful child.
The accident was a tragedy and Mr. Arnauer has never truly recovered. I have
not seen him smile until the last week, after your trip to Boston.”
    “He smiled?” I remember how I thought Mike had forgotten
all about me when we got back. I like knowing he was happy.
    “He was beaming.” She smiles. “You seem good for him.” She
gets a file out of the cabinet and sits in the chair next to me. “But it sounds
like we have some trouble right now.”
    “Mike asked me to marry him. We were going to be married
today.”
    “I am happy for you, but that explains why Maria might have
taken him. She never got over being fired. She lasted about two weeks, before
she was refusing to go on business trips and asking him to be