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She slipped past the tarot readers headed for the strip club in back Luckily, as she did so, her phone rang She glanced at the caller ID It was Jackson

"Where are you?" Jackson asked without greeting her "I thought you’d be a fewto believe what I have to tell you But where are you?"

"Watching Lovely Lola Lolita on the pole"

"Great I’ for you"

A ed out of the darkened doorway He offered her a hand She arched a brow "It’s not that bad!" he called to her

"Can’t wait," she muttered, and went forward to take his hand

A hostess with enormous breasts and tassels on her nipples was in the shadowed hallhen they entered She earing so as her breasts "Welcome back!" she said to Jackson "And this is your lady! Now I understand how you ether!"

Jackson pulled her close "Oh, yes, there’s just nothing like watching a good dancer together, isn’t that true, sweetheart?"

"Ued to mutter When the hostess turned to lead them in, she jabbed him in the ribs

"Ouch!" Jackson was taken by surprise

The hostess turned back

Jackson smiled at her "Soh, you know?"

The hostess laughed "Oh, honey, we see everything here Coela whispered, s around her clenched teeth If he wanted to play it this way, she could pitch in easily enough With her arainst his ear, "Is there really anything we’re going to gain by being here? I can leave you on your own, you know Let you get to know soirls up close and personal" She couldn’t help herself She nipped his earlobe

He glared down at her as she slid back down, looking up at hihed "Okay, I deserved that one"

She wished that she didn’t like hi, hi could be so much pain

They were led to a table It was in the back, and behind Martin DuPre and his group

Jackson thanked the hostess and they took their seats at a plush, black, circular table

Angela quickly noted that Martin DuPre and his party were closer to the stage where a scantily clad wo calisthenics on a pole

"Well This is really coroup have already had about twenty lap dances," Jackson said

"And you’ve just been sitting here?" Angela inquired sweetly

"Hey, I’," he told her He leaned toward her "So?"

"So, I honestly think that I did a very good deed--and found out more about Martin DuPre than you did," she said "Tell ave hirave intent

"So," he said when she had told him about her time with Gabby "So…Martin DuPre, aide to the senator, is a member of the Church of Christ Arisen There’s an oxymoron for you"

"Jackson, I really think that he’s the father of her baby"

"And you want hioing to owe child support," Angela said indignantly "But she may not want it Once Gabby is away from the Church of Christ Arisen, she may discover that she never wants to see anyone who had anything to do with it ever again--even the father of her child And, after tonight, I think he’s…I think he’s sli," she said

He didn’t seeht "He’s a sliina Holloway? And if so, how?"

"We both looked at those criela told hiht and impetus behind whatever happened"

"I’m honestly not sure if the senator suspects that DuPre is part of the church that is always spouting against hi a total ass makes a man a ela told him

He didn’t reply A waitress came by She was almost as scantily clad as the stripper at the pole

They ordered drinks, and the waitress ela said

"Yes?"

"What did you see tonight?" she asked quietly

She was alinning