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forget.”
    Rena frowned and decided not to press. Dee wouldn’t talk until she felt like it.
    “He drove me home asking me more questions about what I do for a living and what I like to do for fun. He was easy to talk to. When we got here, he escorted me to my door and gave me a kiss. Like a perfect gentleman.”
    Dee was right. He had been no fun at all. She had hoped to feel those strong hands on her again, holding her close, making her hot. Instead, he had given her a barely there kiss that hardly registered on her senses. It was better than most of the hardly there kisses that she never felt at all. Part of her wanted to swoon like the ladies of old, needing smelling salts to bring her back to her senses. The other part wanted to kick him to the curb as already not meeting the bill.
    “Oh and he invited me and a friend out to his house this afternoon. He said he was spending time with his brothers and I was invited.”
    She moved the phone away from her ear as Dee’s squeal of delight came over loud and clear.
    “This is going to be great. I will be the envy of all the women in my department. I am going to the boss’s house. I am going to the boss’s house, right? You are taking me?”
    “Of course I am taking you. Who else would I take?’
    Dee started shouting again and Rena waited with the patience of a good friend, all the while smiling and shaking her head.
    “What time do I need to be ready? Who’s driving, you or me?”
    “Depends on whether I can count on you for a ride back or not.”
    “Rena.”
    “Please, tell me you didn’t go home with Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome.” The silence on the phone became deafening as nothing was said.
    “Dee?”
    “I didn’t go home with him.”
    “Are you going to see him again?”
    “No. He wanted to, but I said no.”
    “Why?’
    “Let’s talk about it later ok? Besides, I still need to know when to pick you up for this wonderful pool party.”
    “I never said it was a pool party and it starts at four.”
    After finalizing the details of the pickup, she hung up the phone and spent a few minutes worrying about Dee and her issues. She liked to pretend to the world the she didn’t want commitment. Rena knew better. Dee felt she would never meet a man who could deal with her brand of madness. Rena prayed she was wrong.
    She got up and stretched, wanting to do something to keep her eyes off the clock. Going into the room that she used as her office she opened her lap top. Waiting for it to boot up, she looked around the room. It was a large space that allowed her to have a nice mahogany wood desk and a plush chair to sit in. The view was made up of two large windows and several pictures on the wall. There was a nice couch and a chair when she needed to change positions or locations. She loved her little slice of the corporate world in her home. She wouldn’t trade it, even if she could.
    Running her fingers over the keyboard, she opened a program that would allow her to enter one of the work-stations in the office. Her intuition was screaming that a fellow employee was doing more than he should be. It was time to take a look.
    Several hours later, she composed an e-mail to Mr. Harris, the president of the company and her immediate supervisor, telling him what she had found. Brad, the employee she had under investigation, had obviously known how to hide his foot-print. If not for a bit of conversation she had overheard, she may not have found him in time. It was in Mr. Harris’s hands now, along with all the evidence she had collected, Of course, she had also made a backup for herself. Call it protection, but she learned early to CYA also known as Cover Your Ass.
    Glancing at the clock, she stood, wanting to be ready when Dee arrived. She detoured towards the kitchen and grabbed something to eat. She had gotten so caught up that she had forgotten she needed food. Grabbing a piece of fruit, she headed to the other room. She wanted to enjoy her shower before Dee