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My fingers twitch as I remember how it felt to squeeze her round breasts, her hard nipples betweento my cock onceagainst ht I reach for rab it, and scroll down my contacts list until Penny’s name is on the screen

Maybe I should call her It’s Sunday, and she’s probably free And Joyce’s right, I need to take a fucking break

I’ over it, when I stop uy who calls a woht, and it’s only Sunday… I’ desperate dweeb That’s just not my style

Still, I need to see her

My cock needs her, and who a?

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Penny

“I’m very, very disappointed with you, Penny,”at her ie on my laptop, and then Laurel joins the chorus

“Very disappointed, Penny,” she repeats afterup next to reed on”

Sunday night and here I arilled by my mother, the editor in the chief of the NY Daily Journal, and the New York City mayor This is not how I expected to finish off the weekend

“Look, I’ve just started this investigation and, besides --”

“What the hell are you talking about Penny?” my mother cutson my laptop like a bad dream “Have you even read the article you wrote? You were supposed to destroy hie!”

“All I tried to do was be fair and balanced, ht? Look for the truth?” I say, getting the words in before my mother continues with her diatribe I can’t believe they’re this pissed withainst him? I’d never stoop that low I accepted this job because I thought that, yes, Magnus needed to be knocked off his pedestal, but I never thought of achieving that by sacrificing the truth

That’s just not me

“The truth?” Laurel asks , but not enough to hide how angry she really is “Penny, you’re still a young woman … I know you hold all these ideals of justice and fairness, but that’s not how the real world works And I can assure you that’s not how Magnus works either”