Chapter Seven
Two months later
“Stone, get in here,” Kelly yelled to the disappearing reporter as he tried to exit the newspaper building without seeing his news director.
He stalled for awhile, flirting with a copy editor. He had been on his way out of the building and if he could, he might just ignore Kelly and slip on out. Unfortunately she was standing at her office door, arms crossed in front of her like some 19th century school marm. The way she was peering through her reading glasses, he must have really pissed her off.
“What’s ya’ need, babe,” Tad said, sauntering past her into her office. He sat down at the chair in front of her desk and put his feet up on it as though he planned to stay for awhile.
“You conniving, devious, ungrateful bastard!” she declared, as she shut the d
