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barely enough for me to keep a straight
face.
    My stomach growled. I hadn’t eaten breakfast, and I
knew I wouldn’t be able to sustain myself on my usual stale-bagel
diet if I was fighting to stay ahead of the Chinese balls all day
long. I stopped in McDonald’s to order something quick to go.
    I ran into Rebecca in line. Literally.
    “Ouch!” she cried when I rammed right into her and
stepped on her foot.
    “Oh! Sorry, Rebecca! I wasn’t watching where I was
going,” I said. “I’m—ahhhh, a little preoccupied right now.”
    An understatement.
    “Jasmine! I’m so glad you made it in!” Rebecca gave
me a hug. “I’ve been worried about you.”
    “Why?”
    Rebecca bit her lip. “I wasn’t sure if you would
come back to work after meeting with Rodney Doyle, is all.”
    I took a moment to ponder this. “What makes you say
such a thing?”
    Rebecca shrugged. “Oh, I don’t know. Mr. Doyle just
has a certain reputation, is all. And if things didn’t work out—you
know, with him helping the senator and all—I didn’t know if you’d
be up to doing your job anymore.”
    I ordered an Egg McMuffin Value Meal and stifled a
shudder. If Rebecca only knew what was really going on! I knew that
by keeping my true working arrangements with Rodney Doyle a secret,
I was betraying Senator Grayle. I could live with that. But I
wasn’t at all sure if I could live with betraying Rebecca. I’d
gotten to be good friends with her over the years, and now she was
caught up in something big and serious and didn’t even know it. I
felt a lump of guilt forming in the pit of my stomach.
    “I’ll always up to doing this job, Rebecca,” I lied.
“Public relations is my life.”
    Rebecca gave me a hug. “I knew you’d come through,”
she said—which just made me feel even more guilty. “Things are
pretty crazy upstairs, as you might imagine.” She lowered her
voice. “And Senator Grayle’s back in the office. Somebody bailed
him out of jail.”
    “What?” I yelped. I wasn’t ready to face Senator
Grayle yet. Not by a long shot. “Who bailed him out?”
    “Nobody knows. Even Senator Grayle doesn’t know.
Whoever paid the bond asked to remain anonymous.”
    A terrible possibility formed in my mind. Had Rodney
Doyle bailed out my boss just so I could start snooping around on
him that much sooner? It seemed likely. But I couldn’t exactly tell
Rebecca that.
    “Hmm,” I said, sipping my coffee. “That’s odd. I’m
sure it’ll be all over the news this morning, too.”
    Rebecca grabbed her own breakfast order from the
counter and headed for the door. “You know, you’d think so. But
I’ve been watching the headlines all morning, and so far there’s
been no mention of it.” Then I knew it had to have been
Doyle who bailed Grayle out. Only Rodney Doyle could get away with
something like that and then manage to keep it out of the media.
Things were getting more and more complicated by the second.
    And I was getting more and more turned on by the
second. I struggled to keep up with Rebecca’s quick pace as we
headed upstairs to Senator Grayle’s office, because the Chinese
balls knocked together inside me with every step I took.
    Just before we made it to the office, Rebecca
stopped short in the hallway. “What’s that?”
    “What’s what?”
    “That ringing. Don’t you hear chimes ringing?”
Rebecca looked around, her expression puzzled. “Where is it coming
from?
    “I don’t hear anything.”
    Rebecca shrugged. “Maybe I’m hearing things.” She
headed for the office front door, and I followed. Then she stopped
short again. “There it is again. Don’t you hear it?”
    This time, I did hear it. To my shock, I
realized that the tiny chimes inside the Chinese balls were
ringing. They were ringing inside my vag, and the sound
could be heard outside my vag.
    How the hell was I supposed to get through the day
like this?
    “I don’t hear anything at all,” I lied, desperate.
“Maybe your ears