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I counted and counted, and when I was on number seventy-eight, my phone rang. Lora's name flashed on the screen and I picked it up almost immediately.
"Obviously you had not called me in the middle of the night just to hang up. And I am well aware that you usually don't call anyone at this time, ma'am!" Lora said in a groggy voice.
"Sorryyy, honey!" I said sheepishly.
"No, you are not!" She snorted and a smile formed on my face smugly when she added, "Come on, now start..." And with that, I knew that it was not my assistant on the other side of the call, it was my friend, Lora.
"I kissed Jackson!" I blurted out in one breath.
"W-What? As in, Jackson Morgan? The Jackson Morgan?" She asked, clearly not believing what I told her.
I took a deep breath and said, with more em
