And it’s actually cheaper than two rooms. The company is saving money.”After washing up, they went down to eat. The hotel’s main restaurant turn...d out to be a unit of a national chain of white-tablecloth units of which California had scores from all of them. They had a quiet drink and an excellent dinner. It turned out to be very enjoyable for both of them. Each thought they were acting like a married couple and were even talking as if they were, neither said a word to the other about their. She noticed that the dull pain in her calves wasn’t as bad, but her ass was throbbing. The 30 minutes of walking straight must have done something to those muscles. She put the high heels on in the car again and walked into work. Her boss was there early again. She went into his office and didn’t make eye contact, just picked up the workout clothes that she had put down last night. She did notice they were folded differently than she typically does it, but didn’t worry about that. She started. If things work out between you and me then what about Carol? Are you going to keep doing stuff with her?”“I guess I didn’t think that far ahead.”“And what if Jason bows out?”“Why would he do that?”“I told him about you and Carol.”Fear.“You didn’t!” she moaned.“Why wouldn’t I? It affects him.”“What if he blabs it around?”“He promised to keep it to himself.”“But will he?”“I think so. I’m keeping an eye on him. I’m not sure that he and Carol are going to work out.”Jake glanced over at them. Carol. "Tell me, at least – is she pretty?"I had to think about that. If that seems strange, I'm sorry. "Ye ... es," I answered slowly, "but that's not it. She was so infuriating when she was a pupil, because I was sure she was capable of much more than she was achieving. You know how it is? If she'd spent half the time that she spent avoiding work on actually studying, she'd be in University now, or at least in some sort of vocational training. But one couldn't have helped liking her. She was so ....