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off any customers …even though these ladies deserved it more than anyone else in my bar had in a long time.  “No, thanks.  I think I’ll pass.”
    I turned on my heel and started walking away.  But then I heard the wife say, “I have five hundred bucks that says you’ll consider changing your mind.”
    I froze.  Had I heard that right?   Five hundred dollars?  I didn’t turn around at first, but my mind wrapped around that money as though the bills were within my grasp.  It wouldn’t be enough to repair my car, but it would come close.  If I had five hundred, I could maybe scrape the rest together, especially if I worked an extra shift and only ate ramen noodles for the month.  I’d done that before, so I knew I could do it again.
    Oh, no.   What was I thinking?  Was I actually considering it?  No, no, no.  No way was I going to seduce some guy into cheating on his wife for five hundred dollars.  No freaking way.  I felt dirty having thought it.
    So I started turning around again and said, “Sorry.  No can do.”
    I hesitated, though, when I saw her whip out her wallet and pull out five one-hundred dollar bills.  She slammed them on the table as though she were betting on a sure blackjack hand.  It was tempting…
    B ut no.
    I shook my head.  “Thanks but no thanks.”  I almost put a smug look on my face like a mask, but for some reason, I didn’t.  Later on I would be grateful that I hadn’t added what I’d considered:  My integrity’s not for sale.
    Because, it turns out, it was.
     

 
     
     
    Chapter Three
     
    I STOOD, ALMOST frozen, considering the offer that had just been presented to me.  I could seduce a man, see if he had the desire to cheat on his wife, and collect five hundred dollars.  There were but two catches.  One was that I didn’t trust these women, and they certainly hadn’t given me reason to.  The second was that I’d be doing something essentially evil.  I would be destroying the trust between two people who had entered a sacred bond.  I could see no good coming out of it—either I’d catch the guy being a snake and his wife would hate him or he’d find out what I was trying to do and he’d hate his wife.  Whatever the case, what this woman was asking me to do shined a light on the supreme lack of trust in her marriage.
    Then again, maybe I was being overdramatic.  The bottom line was that this woman had offered me easy cash—probably the easiest and fastest money I would ever make in my life.  The thought made me feel almost like a whore, but I pushed it to the back of my mind.  She hadn’t mentioned actual sex.
    Dirty or not, evil or not, I was intrigued.  Maybe my car could be saved.
    About that time, as the scales were tipping in the woman’s favor, the pug nose woman reached in her purse and slammed down another hundred.  “Gotta support my girlfriend.”
    The long-haired blonde next to her did the same, followed by the last friend, an almost-mousy girl compared to the other three.  Icy Blonde looked at me again.  “That’s eight hundred dollars.  Still no thanks ?”
    Holy shit.   Okay…so now they’d made it impossible to refuse.  That would just about repair my car and solve so damn many problems.  I sighed and stepped closer.  Yep, turned out my integrity had a price, and it was eight hundred smackeroos.  I swallowed what little pride I had left and got closer to the table so I could lower my voice some.  “So what’s involved?”
    Pug Nose pulled a chair closer.  “Sit down.”
    I was busy and the bartender wouldn’t appreciate it, but I could spare a couple of minutes.  I sat.  Icy Blonde assessed me with her eyes again, a cold stare that made me feel about three inches tall, but I somehow passed muster.  She said, “You try to seduce my husband.  I want you to imagine him as the only man on the planet for you.  Offer sex…and…”  She arched her eyebrows, and the cool white shadow on her brow bone