Luckily for me, both Tom and Bill seemed quite conversant with it, because I rarely found myself in a position to speak. “What’s wrong, Linnea? First, instead of dealing with my usual contact, Hunter, I’d been negotiating with Hunter’s boss, Big Bill. “That’s… “I think those hairs probably were yours, Linnea. Objectively, it was wrong to have done it, but I hadn’t precisely intended her to be a sexual partner when I’d started. I cheated on you,” I admitted, feeling like a child caught stealing from a cookie jar. Second, I’d used Stacey’s magic on Big Bill. “No, there’s nothing like that around here,” I replied, smiling. I wasn’t a slut or anything. “So I put on the gloss and then ran into Big Bill–”
“Who?”
“Big Bill. I’d been in this position before, and gotten screwed — figuratively rather than literally. Luckily for me, both Tom and Bill seemed quite conversant with it, because I rarely found myself in a position to speak. “Good catch,” I whispered to Tom as I exited triumphantly to start the next part
