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Silence Well, that shut hi my temples
"Sara Dillon Sara Dillon of Ryan Media Group"
"The very one It started before I even knew she worked with Ben"
"Wow I , but, she seeht she had it in her Nice"
And because it felt so good to just say it, I barreled on "It started out as just a hookup I could tell she was using s?"
I scratched my jaw and winced as I admitted, "She likes to have sex in public"
"Uh?" he said, laughing "That doesn’t sound like the Sara Dillon I’ve met"
"And she lets raphs, so"
The silence stretched for a fewHe cleared his throat "Okay, the sex in public is pretty aweso a girl"
"What’s your point, tosser?"
"That you’re behind the trend, dick"
"Will, I’ serious here"
"Okay So what’s the probleed to get her to go to a restaurant I find out her parents own fking Dillons, Will The departs I didn’t even know before yesterday"
He was quiet for a beat and then laughed quietly "Yeah"
"So, like this, we’re actually talking for once, and then her twat of an ex calls"
"Yeah"
"And it’s obvious he did a right nuet away fast enough after that She’ll have sex with me until she can barely walk, but she won’t tell ree to actually have a meal with rew up in Chicago That’s it? I know nothing about her, really"
"Yeah"
"Will, are you even listening to ht"
"Sohave you googled her?" he asked
"Of course not," I said
"Why?"
I groaned "I thought we had this conversation after the Cecily debacle Nothing good cole searches"
"But professionally, if you’re working with soht?"
"Of course"
"Well, I googled Sara as soon as I knew she’d be one of rew tight, and I tugged uselessly at hed "Not a chance Find some balls and strap them on while your laptop boots And on that note, this little chat’s been great but I gotta go Co Once upstairs, I made it all of fivethe naine
Holy shit
There wasn’t just the odd es of results, possibly more than I’d find on es first, scrolling through photos of her that had to span at least the last ten years of her life She was so young in some of them, her butterscotch hair styled in a sleek pixie in souarded and naïve
And these weren’t just a collection of fah-definition paparazzi photos taken with expensive zooazines with exclae There were parties and weddings, charity events and vacations, and almost alith the same man at her side
He was only a few inches taller than she ith black hair and sharp, Roht, toothy sined it would, which is to say not sincere in the slightest
So this was Andy Known to the world as Andrew Morton De the seventh district of Illinois
Suddenly, a lot of things were falling into place
With a resigned sigh, I clicked on what seemed to be a fairly recent picture; her hair was about the saround The caption below the photo read:
Sara Dillon and Andrew Morton at the annual Chicago Sun-Tiressman Morton announced his plans to run for the United States Senate next fall
I clicked the link and read the entire article, confir that this story ritten only last winter, and that ressn trail I routed back to the e and scrolled back to the top where, beside several sih a tangle of paparazzi, covering her face with her coat I’d ignored these at first because her face hadn’t been visible I clicked the link to the story associated with the photo, dated only a feeeks before I o Tribune caressht in an intirave;-tête with a woman other than his fiancée, Sara Dillon The brunette, identified as Melissa Marino, is a junior aide in his Chicago-based offices
In the middle of the article was the photo in question, of aa woman--obviously not Sara
Dillon and Morton have been linked since 2007, and the pair, the darlings of the Chicago social scene ever since, were engaged last December shortly after Morton announced his intention to run for the US Senate Sara Dillon, head of finance for the coer and Samantha Dillon, founders of the well-known department store chain found across seventeen states and hefty financial backers of the Morton can
The Dillon family spokesperson couldn’t be reached for con responded to the Tribune inquiry with only, "Mr Morton’s private life has never been a subject for public consumption"