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his business partners.
    I was frozen in place as if I’d seen a ghost.
    “Hey, is everything okay?” Santana had asked me.
    It took a while and after stuttering, I was finally able to get out a complete sentence.
    “Yes, I was coming to see if I could take you to lunch,” I’d told him.
    I could feel Joey staring at me out of the corner of my eye but I refused to look at him.
    “Well, I guess I don’t have a choice now do I. Oh, where are my manners, baby this is Joseph Moore. Mr. Moore this is my wife, Niveah,” Santana said introducing Joey and I.
    Joey firmly shook my hand as I gave a small smile. I’d started to sweat and I knew that if I didn’t get out of that room, at that very moment, I was going to faint.
    “I’ll wait for you in the car,” I’d said.
    As soon as I was out the door, I sent Joey message after message calling him everything but a child of God.
    The nerve of him! He’d always been crazy but damn! He had some explaining to do!
    That same night, I’d managed to get away from Santana on a grocery store run and I was able to call and confront Joey. I wasn’t sure if Joey was going to answer but he did.
    “What the hell are you thinking?” I’d asked him.
    “I miss you,” was the first thing that Joey said to me. Finally, after hanging up on him a few times and then calling him back, Joey told me that one of Santana’s partners had reached out to him for some marketing help. They wanted to take their company to the next level and they’d heard that Joey was one of the best. Of course Joey knew exactly who Santana was and had followed through on the meetings and even accepted the job as a way of getting under my skin.
    After begging and pleading, and promising to give him one night alone with him so that we could talk, he promised in return that he would call Santana and his crew and turn down the job offer.
    And he’d done just that. Now I had to keep my end of the deal.
     
    “Oh no, that’s too bad. Have you guys found someone else to do it?” I asked Santana out of true concern.
    “Yea, we have a few others in mind,” was all that Santana said.
    “Well baby, are you sure that it’s okay to drive to North Carolina tomorrow to see my brother’s new baby and my parents?”
    After my parents were older and ready to settle down, they’d moved back to North Carolina. My brother and his family had also gone back to be closer to them. At the time of their departure, I was married to Tony and moving back just wasn’t an option, not that I’d even consider going back.
    But this was the only lie that I could use in hopes of getting off clean with Santana so that I could spend a night with Joey as promised.
    I couldn’t help but wonder what lie he would use.
    “Are you sure you don’t want to wait until the weekend? That way I can go with you?” Santana asked, getting in bed behind me.
    “No, I’ll be fine. It’s not that long of a drive and besides, this weekend I have a little something planned for you,” I pitched him a story, that I now had to follow through on.
    That night, as Santana snored loudly behind me, I found it almost impossible to sleep.
    I could tell that things were about to get messy, unless I got them under control now.
    Joey was trouble---I was sure of it.
     
    The next day almost came too soon.
    I saw Santana off to work and then prepared for my fake road trip. Joey and I had both agreed to go to one of our favorite hide away spots outside of town.
    We had never been together all day and night before, so I didn’t exactly know what to expect.
    “What lie did you tell her; about where you were going?” I asked Joey once we were alone in the honeymoon suite of our favorite Bead and Breakfast.
    “Does it really matter what I told her?” Joey wanted to know.
    “I saw her…twice,” I said to him.
    If only I had a camera. The look on his face had to be as I imagined mine was when I walked in and seen him sitting in Santana’s office.
    “She seems