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of miles away from where I lived.
    My father had been visibly upset, but he perked up when he found out that I was meeting with one of his idols, Joe Montana. I promised him an autographed photograph and I was a woman of my word. It was an early Christmas and birthday present all rolled into one. I even presented it to him on January first at the start of the New Year to see him smile for the last time. He died that night. My mother was still grieving after six months, but at least she had my brothers living in the same city to console her in her hour of need.
    “You’ve always been a ball buster, Vivian.” Joshua was only calling me that. It was my pseudonym when I first started in this business. He liked to make light of the fact that I wasn’t comfortable enough to put my own name on my work. That soon vanished and now he was just using it to remind me of where I came from. “You have done some amazing things. I’m not one to pat you on the back.” He had stopped me with my hand on the door leading to the stairs going down to my black Porsche. It wasn’t like I was living high on the hog. I liked the occasional good bottle of wine, but it was seeing that car and feeling its power underneath my ass that made me sign on the dotted line.
    “Just because we slept together, doesn’t make you an expert on who I am.” Joshua was a good lay, but he was a distraction and nothing more. I never dipped my ink in the company well.  With him, I’d gone against my own cardinal rule and it was never going to happen again.
     
    Chapter two
    “You better not be fucking with me, Thomas. You know how I get cross when people try to fool me into thinking something that isn’t true. If you are on the level, then you can expect a pretty hefty paycheck coming your way. If not, then our business together is over. I mean it…fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.”
    Thomas was good for a few laughs over a few drinks. He was a very sought after rehabilitation expert in sports medicine. His name was very hush hush and he liked it like that way. He never wanted the notoriety or the press to follow him around like puppy dogs on a leash.
    “I didn’t fool you the last time. I thought that he was really going to be there, but then he changed his mind. This is different. Xavier has expressed interest in seeing me personally while he’s in town. I’m going to meet him at the locker room of the New York Giants. Nobody else will be there and after I’m done you can sneak in and do what you need to do. I promise that I’m on the level. I would never think to try to make you look like a fool. Trust me, he will be there. He’s been having problems with his knee and wants to make sure that it’s not anything serious. His own doctors are giving him the green light, but he’s uncertain that they are doing it for him and not because the team needs him.”
    It sounded plausible and my idea of getting him alone in his room might not be the right course of action. “I’m taking your word on this. I’ll show up after two PM. That should give you plenty of time to vacate the premises.”
    I hung up and I felt like my blood was pumping. It was the thrill of the story getting into my veins. I was still dressed in my black skirt. That was a weapon that I never left home without. That little piece of fabric had gotten me out of many a parking ticket. Not to mention convinced some security guards to look the other way. It was only once that I had to agree to let a White man go down on me. That security guard really was good with his tongue, but I really didn’t find him to be anything special. He was, after all, just a means to an end.
    “You have my word that he will be there. Whether you get the story is entirely up to you. There’s nothing that I can do to help you with that. I could sing your praises while working on his knee, but I think that would be like pouring gasoline on a fire. I’m not going to mention your name,