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I know.”
    Jackson didn’t say so, but he was starting to think the same thing.
     
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    “Well,” Keira said, “this is a first.”
    Belle looked to her boss, the unflappable Director of Admissions, Keira Moseley. She stood with her hands on her curvy hips, her strawberry blonde curls bobbing as she shook her head.
    “I’d certainly hope so.” Belle stared at the surprise that’d been waiting for them in the office when they’d unlocked the doors a minute ago. “What should we do – call campus security?”
    Keira had already turned on her heel and was marching toward the phone at the reception desk. It was currently Zackary’s post, although he hadn’t arrived yet.
    “We’ve got a situation here,” Keira said into the receiver after punching in a few numbers. “Someone made it into the office overnight and left us a little gift.”
    It wasn’t so little, actually. The dildo standing at attention in the center of the round waiting table outside Keira and Belle’s individual offices didn’t seem far shy of a foot long. Made of bright kelly green rubber molded in an anatomically correct shape, it looked garish – even intimidating.
    “I get that some people get upset when they’re not accepted,” Belle said, “but how the hell did they get past the locks?”
    The only people who had keys to the admissions office were Keira, Belle and the college’s janitorial and security staff. Anyone else would’ve had to steal a key or pick the lock.
    “Like I said, this is a first. Your guess is as good as mine.”
    Belle’s gaze drifted toward her office. “I hope they didn’t leave us any other surprises.”
    “Don’t go looking – we’ll have security inspect. People are nuts these days; they might’ve left something a lot worse than this.”
    Zackary walked in at that very moment. “Morning, gu— What the hell?”
    Belle turned to see him standing frozen by the reception desk, a backpack sagging off of one shoulder. “I’m, uh, still scheduled to work this morning, right?”
    “We had a visitor.” Keira said it as if she were reporting on the weather. “Security is on the way.”
    Belle bit her lip before she could laugh.
    When two campus security officers arrived, their purposeful stride faltered as they walked through the office door.
    The older one, a fifty-ish man with a grey mustache, was the first to recover. “Is this the, uh, object left by whoever broke in?”
    “Yes,” Keira said, “and they either had a key or picked the lock. The door was just as I left it last night when I got here this morning – I unlocked it myself.”
    The mustached man frowned and approached the rubber phallus as if it were a venomous snake that might strike if he got too close.
    The urge to laugh grew stronger, and Belle buried an eyetooth in her lower lip.
    It really wasn’t funny that someone had somehow entered the locked office and left something lewd for them to find. But the way people were reacting to it was definitely amusing.
    After a few seconds of frowning at the “surprise,” the security officer turned his gaze on his partner and the office staff. “Right, well, since someone entered the locked office, I’m going to err on the side of caution and treat this as more than a prank. I’ll have a police officer come by and make a report. Nobody move the, uh, object.”
    “We won’t,” Keira said, her expression betraying no hint of humor.
    “Stanley, stay here while I make the call.”
    The younger security officer nodded and took up a post near the door.
    “For God’s sake,” Keira said after his partner stepped out of the room, “shut the door. I don’t want students coming in here and snapping pictures of our little exhibit.”
    “This is a health sciences school,” Zackary said as he stepped forward, pushing the door shut, “I’m sure all the students here are, uh, familiar with human anatomy.”
    Keira side-eyed the oversized sex toy. “Human. Sure.”
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