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Myles was not sure how he liked this situation. He had arrived at Sue and Lucy's apartment precisely at seven p.m. carrying a well-chosen bottle of wine. He had not known that Jack would be there as well but he was glad to see him. In fact he had only accepted the invitation because Sue seemed to think that she needed to thank him and he did not want to disappoint her. He admitted to himself that he had grown to like Sue. She was a diligent agent and a good person. Lucy, on the other hand, had been giving him mean looks all night. He looked at her as she poured the after dinner coffee. She was very tense. He could see this from the way she held her shoulders ramrod straight. He recalled when he would make her relax by gently massaging the muscles at the back of her neck. His fingers curled with the memory of the feel of her warm smooth skin.
"Damn! Darned if I'm here … Darned if I'm not here", he thought to himself. He turned to Jack and started a discussion on the fortunes of the Redskins.
Sue walked in from the kitchen with a plate of cookies and surveyed the scene before her. It had been an enjoyable evening. Jack and Myles were talking football and she could tell from their gesturing that it was a very animated discussion. She thought that Jack looked a little tired but it was nice of him to come over straight from the airport. He had presented her with a little souvenir with a cute slightly embarrassed look on his face. It had given her a warm feeling. Lucy had looked a little strange when she had ushered him into the apartment. In fact she had been edgy all night. She was seated now at the far end of the sofa with a disgusted look on her face. "Was Lucy matchmaking again?" Sue wondered. "Maybe she needs a dose of her own medicine."
She glanced across at Myles. "There does seem to be more to this than meets the eye."
She signed to Lucy: "Too much boy talk. Let's get involved."
She grabbed the Scrabble game and moved closer to the men.
Lucy was sitting at one end of the sofa, musing over the evening. She was annoyed, very annoyed. Primarily, she was annoyed with Myles, well … just for being Myles. But, she was also annoyed with herself for having cajoled Jack to come over at the last moment and then mumbling her way through a scarcely believable excuse. He had given her a strange look then but he did seem to enjoy himself this evening. Sue had taken the news that she had invited Jack over without her knowing, with good humor, very good humor, in fact. Lucy smiled too herself. Maybe she will tease her about that after the guys left. She glanced at Sue. She would deny that there had been glances at Jack all through the evening. "But it would, at the very least, divert attention from my fiasco," Lucy surmised. "Maybe I could move things along… ". She then noticed that Sue was signing to her.
Jack looked up as Sue moved across the room to the sofa.