Five
Tristan winced as Lulu made her first mistake as his unofficial and very temporary campaign manager.
It was the only cover story he could think of this late at night. Trixie would never buy some kind of one-night-stand story. She knew he hadn’t dated anyone since his surgery, and didn’t want to. He and Trixie had a funny kind of off-and-on friendship that veered into flirtation sometimes, and even a long-ago one-night stand.
Which was enough to tell both of them they had no business being together.
Then they’d both decided to run for mayor, and things had been a little tense since then. Best to keep Trixie on a need-to-know basis when it came to the mysterious Lulu.
“She’s still getting the hang of the job,” he told Trixie. “This is our first meeting. She arrived late tonight and
