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"I don't understand"

"Then listen closely because I will only tell you this once If you cost me this election, you will be dead to me, and that is exactly ill happen if you and Jocelyn are together"

"But I love her—I—"

"Consider what I'ht now"

"I hear what you're saying Believeyou this election I want you to win and I know you can You're my dad—the only dad I know You've always been there for me"

Michael doesn't expect the sentiuard, but I continue because I mean it It's the truth

"But I do love Jocelyn and she loves ether And I pron"

He laughs "Oh to be young and naïve That's such a foolish thing to say Lance, listen to yourself for just a minute! A scandal like this will rock every news site there is Reporters will have a field day with this story, don't you see? They'll be licking their lips as they watch n has been built on faest joke of all"

"That won't happen," I say "I have a plan"

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New York Daily Journal

Froe Two

Welco around the halls of power:

With two days to go before the mayoral election, it see out of left field

First we have runant wife, Jocelyn Anders Sources inside the Mayor’s ca on condition of anonymity because this is super secret confirm to me that the Mayor and his wife are not, and have not been sleeping in the same bedroom for months It could be even before the election