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shimmered in the low light.  “And…take him up on the offer if he does.”
    Pug Nose:  “Oh, he will.”
    “Pics or it didn’t happen.”
    The long-haired blonde started giggling.  I tried not to roll my eyes.   I had an ugly truth to swallow.  She was telling me I had to follow through with an offer of sex.  That did make me a whore.  Maybe that made me a more expensive, better educated one than she’d find downtown, but there was no denying what that exchange of money would make me.  If I were going to follow through with this evil plan, there were some details I needed to clarify.  I didn’t intend to rape the man.  So I asked, “And what if he refuses?”
    Icy’s brow furrowed.  “ I’ll know.   Because I’ll be watching.”  Okay, so that seemed a little…creepy, but it was her money.  “So I’ll know if you do a half-assed job.”
    I shrugged and frowned.  I could do a decent job…and I’d just pray he didn’t take me up on the offer.   It felt almost like entrapment.  Icy picked up the cash and counted out four bills.  “Half now and half when you’re done.”
    Wow.  What?  I could walk with half the cash now ?  Seeing the bills…it was too tempting.  I would take the money to Carl the very next day.  It might have been a move of reluctance, but I swept the cash off the table just the same.
    Now that I was committed, I needed the dirty details.  “So…when do I do this?”
    Icy started digging in her purse.  She pulled out a pink phone and began swiping at the screen.  Then she handed it to me.  “That’s Kage.”
    Okay…so this was gonna be harder than I’d hoped, and it wasn’t because the guy was a dog or a dork and, therefore, difficult to cozy up to.  Oh, no.  The guy was hotter than hell…sex in a snug pair of blue jeans.  Holy shit.  Just slightly longish dark brown hair, gorgeous green eyes framed with long eyelashes, and the cutest cleft in his chin.  Well, no…it wasn’t going to be hard flirting with him.  He was definitely my type.  But it was going to be hard deceiving him.
    Then again…if he was a big dirty cheater, then I was doing this woman a favor…even if she didn’t necessarily deserve it.
    “You said his name is Kage ?”
    “Yeah, with a K .”
    I nodded but stared at the phone a little longer.  I realized that was a bad idea.  I didn’t need my new boss jealous, angry, or more hateful with me than she’d already been that evening, so I peeled my eyes away from the phone and looked up at her.  “So how do I do this?”
    I heard the bartender yelling at me over the music.  “Jess!  Would you mind?”
    I turned around and gave him a glare.  Lazy ass.  He wasn’t the usual cool guy I worked with.  I didn’t care for this guy at all, and I was interrupting his hockey game or whatever the hell it was he was staring at on the big screen.  He could deliver a drink or two across the room.  It wouldn’t kill him.  Still…I didn’t need to be in trouble, so I stood.  “Be there in a minute!”
    Icy said, “ Kage and his friends go out for pool every Thursday night at a bar just down the road.  Give me your phone number and I can text you the details.”
    Today was Tuesday.  Holy shit.  “You want me to do it this week?”
    “The sooner the better.”
    So, while we exchanged numbers, I imagined Kage’s beautiful green eyes in my mind and knew this was going to be the easiest eight hundred dollars I’d ever made in my entire life.
    I’d just have to try not to feel too guilty.
    The next day, I was on the phone with Carl, telling him my good fortune.  “I’ll have the eight hundred to you by the end of the week.  I have four hundred of it now.”
    “What?  You’re shitting me, Jessica.”
    “Nope.   Can you still get your hands on that transmission?”
    “Yeah, probably.   But I gotta know—how’d you manage?”
    No way was I going to tell Carl I was about to sell my soul while trying to corrupt