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don’t work a normal nine to five.”
    “I’m sorry. I keep forgetting that your hours rotate,” Tracy
chirped in a tone way too chipper, in Victoria’s opinion.
    “I was just calling to see if I can bring a date to the
Sickle Cell Benefit on Saturday.”
    Victoria was a volunteer fundraiser for the Sickle Cell
Association of Illinois, and every year she sponsored a huge black tie event.
    “Tracy, you can bring as many people as you want, as long as
they buy a ticket and bring their checkbook.”
     Victoria knew that she was being grumpy. She didn’t
care. It was seven-thirty in the damn morning! 
    “I’d like to bring Steve. We’re kinda dating.”
    “Oh, my,” Victoria giggled. “Well, that woke me up!”
    Victoria sat up in pleasant shock. “Well, Miss Tracy, Steve
already bought a ticket but good luck getting him into a tux,” she chuckled.
    Victoria knew that Tracy was gonna have to sit down and have lunch with her best friend very soon. She wanted
details.
    “I’ll get him in a tux,” Tracy said with confidence. 
    “Can’t wait to see that, but right now I’m going back to
sleep,” Victoria yawned into the phone.
    Still way too damn chipper, Tracy was barely able to reply.
“Okay. Later, babe,” before Victoria was hanging up the phone and getting back
under the covers.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 

 
    CHAPTER 6
    STORM
    Jack
stood at the window of his penthouse apartment atop Storm Tower and sipped his scotch.
    He stared at Chicago’s impressive skyline. He took another
sip and looked down at the busy streets. He wondered if his caramel beauty was
out strolling the dangerous streets of Chicago. He
couldn’t believe that he was becoming protective of a woman that he didn’t
know. He walked over to the sofa and retrieved a file from the coffee table.
    John, Jack’s head of security, had done a very thorough
investigation, so Jack had Victoria Price’s complete life story in his hands.
She had been a cop for ten years, and a very good cop at that. Her career as a
police officer was impressive. She’d studied self-defense for years and she
specialized in hand-to-hand combat. She was even an instructor at a local YMCA.
She had two loving parents. Her father was African American, and her mother was
Dominican. She had one sister and one brother. Her entire family lived in South
Carolina. She had been engaged at one time to some asshole lawyer, Dante
Roberts, until she walked in on him in bed with another woman.
    What would
make a man want another woman after having Victoria ?
    She was also a volunteer for the Sickle Cell Association of
Illinois, and she was sponsoring a ball that Saturday. He had Mary secure him a
ticket. That would be when Jack would make his move. She was participating in a
bachelorette auction. That was one bid that he didn’t intend to lose. He had
every intention of seducing Victoria Price Saturday night. 
    She is
worth every penny , he thought to himself. 
    His ringing phone interrupted his thoughts of Victoria. He
stared at the caller ID and debated on whether he should answer. It was
Caroline; a woman that he’d had sex with a couple of times. Caroline Miller was
your typical spoiled little rich girl living off of Daddy’s money, but Jack’s
net worth made Daddy look blue collar.
    Caroline was no fool. She wanted more than sex. Jack didn’t
do more, but he answered the call none-the-less.
    “Storm.”
    “Baby, where’ve you been?” Caroline was using that whiny
voice that Jack couldn’t stand.
    Jack had absolutely no patience for this shit. “Busy. What
do you want?”
    “I miss you, baby. I wanna drop by.”
    “Not tonight, Caroline.”
    Jack wasn’t interested at all. He could’ve definitely used
the release, and Caroline was definitely beautiful in a superficial kind of way.
She was petite with long blonde hair, a peaches and cream complexion, green
eyes, and enormous fake boobs. But Jack had no desire to spend an evening with
Caroline. He