The king maker would be none too happy with her doing a run around, but she had an insatiable desire for the next big story, regardless of how she man...ged to get the information. The promise of landing the big story outweighed her common sense or duty to do the right thing. She knew what her father and mother back in ‘sticksville’ would say about her capricious behavior. They would have wanted to intervene and get me the hell out of dodge. I wanted to fulfill my contract to bring exclusives to. "Mr McGregor and Ms MacAuley, I can assure you both that there has been no mistake. Both of your names were put forward in the proper manner and you received sufficient votes to be elected. In your case, Mr McGregor, you polled the highest number of votes of anyone,"Donnie shook his head in disgust and turned to Heather."Christine and Ronnie! Wait 'til I get my hands on them," he muttered out of the side of his mouth.Mr Ogilvie went on to outline the responsibilities each of them would have as. An hour later, Ted and I were in the casino. It was similar to the ones in Vegas, but simultaneously more classy and less glitzy. Maybe there was a sliding scale on how that worked. The tables and fittings were all brass, dark wood and glittering crystal. The whole place just screamed "money."If I expected it to be empty of people, I was sadly mistaken. While it was far from full, there were at least a hundred people there gambling. Looking at them, I judged that they were the last of the late. I’m too tired to deal with this anymore.”“Stay here tonight,” Wesley responded. “I don’t like you being off and unprotected.”“If I thought that was the invitation I wish it was, I’d stay,” Rebecca said, pulling him to his feet to kiss goodnight. “But it is no safer in your spare bedroom than anyplace else. At least my apartment has a lock on the door.”“This place will, too, as soon as I get to a hardware store tomorrow. I know, that doesn’t help tonight. Come on. I’ll walk you home.”Wesley.