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on which pics to use and it would be finished.
    Hiram stood at the front desk waiting, apparently for her.
    She groaned internally, but put a smile on her face, “So, what did you think about my piece, boss?”
    He was wearing the kind of smile her Granny used say was like ‘a possum eating shit and enjoying every mouthful.’  She suddenly worried he might be the one who read what was on her monitor. She gave a mental, ‘Ewww!’  He was in his mid-fifties, short, balding and pudgy, but everyone told her how much he liked her. He called her his ‘Roxanne Simpson’ of the office. Roxanne was the reporter played by Eva Mendez in the movie Ghost Rider.  Jade didn’t exclude herself from her celebrity matching habit, and although she did see a striking resemblance, with the exception that she had green eyes and Eva had brown, she simply didn’t see herself as sexy.
    “Great work! I loved it. I want you to make sure you don’t have anything on your calendar when they finish the three-day so you can do a follow-up.”
    “Sure. No problem.”
    “Listen, the Lightning are—”
    “Don’t say it or I quit!”
    “Huh?”
    “You and I need to talk,” she glanced to Kristen who was seated at the reception desk trying to appear busy and uninterested, but Jade knew she was listening to every word. She also knew within the hour her refusal to cover the Lightning game would be all over the building.
    Five minutes later, she and her boss were standing in his office.
    “Boss, I know you’re getting ready to pair me up with Noah, and I know he asked you to do it.”
    Hiram appeared to be a little ashamed as his cheeks turned red, “Jade, he—”
    “Mr. Spencer,” she said, addressing him formally so he’d know she was serious, “he’s harassing me, and I don’t appreciate you going along with it.”
    He sat down behind his over-sized desk and sank into his over-sized executive chair, “I’m sorry.”
    His sudden apology caught her totally off-guard.
    “He interviewed with Jacksonville and Miami before he came here. I was working hard to land him, and I hate to admit it, but I think when he saw you, he made up his mind. He wanted to know everything about you, and he asked me what you wrote. He also asked if I could arrange for the two of you to do a couple stories together. I’m sure it helped for Tampa to have major league baseball, football, and hockey, but once he saw you, he agreed to work for us.”
    Jade felt as if someone could have knocked her over with a feather. Although it was a strange compliment in a way, it didn’t deter her from telling her boss how she felt about the whole thing, “That isn’t my problem. He makes me really uncomfortable.  The son of a bitch was practically naked the first time I met him! He’s too pushy, too presumptuous, and too married. If you gave him the impression he and I were going to be working together just to land him, you need to apologize to him. I’ve never been one to buck an assignment but this is wrong and I refuse to go along with it.”
    “Honestly, I’m surprised you didn’t tell me this when I assigned you to the Rays’ game.”  He paused, but then began again, “I was going to have you do a piece on the couple chosen for the Lightning’s community heroes program before the game.”
    “Would you have sent me to do this if someone else was writing the sports column?”
    “Probably not.”
    “I tell you what, I’ll do the write up on who they selected as their heroes program recipient, but I don’t need to go to the game. Were you going to send a photographer?”
    “Angie said she’d cover it, but then Ethan volunteered.”
    “Ask him to get me a couple shots of the presentation of the check, I’ll do the rest. The next time Noah wants me for a female sidekick, you’re going to tell him no.”
    “You’re not going to hold this against me are you?”
    She gave him an uneasy smile, “Only if you don’t use me as a hiring bonus in the