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It was now ten a.m.
Lucy was at her desk and still not sure how she felt about Sue inviting Myles over to their apartment for dinner. Sure, he had been there before with the entire group but, no matter how innocent the intention, she still did not like the idea of him coming over. She walked over to Tara's desk.
"Tara, want to come over to Sue's and my apartment for dinner? I'm making my grandmother's special peach cobbler recipe." She suggested in a casual manner.
"Oooh! Sounds delicious but no can do. I've a blind date tonight and I'm really looking forward to it. He's an assistant professor in mathematics at Harvard, specializing in Symbolic Logic." She rubbed her hands together in glee.
"Rats!" said Lucy, "I mean … that's great! Have a nice time … really."
"Another time? Please?" Tara appealed.
"Maybe we can plan something for next week," Lucy suggested.
She looked around the office. Bobby and D were out on a surveillance assignment with no set time for their return. "But," she thought to herself as her eyes fell on Jack's desk, "Jack will be back this afternoon … Hmmm."
After mentally calculating the time it would take for Jack to exit the plane, make his way through immigration, customs and drive from the airport, she determined that he should just be able to comfortably get to their apartment in time for dinner … if he could be convinced to.
Quick to act, she returned to her desk and sent the following e-mail:
"Hey Jack,
Long flight from Paris?
Too tired to get yourself dinner today?
How about a welcoming home-cooked meal at the apartment of Sue Thomas and Lucy Dotson?
Sue's making her meatloaf."
"And now for the clincher", she said to herself. She added. "P.S. It's important!"
There's nothing else I can do, she said to herself.
She did not even ask herself why she thought it necessary to go to these extremes.