"Beth, I'm serious. It's not looking good."
"Keep your pants on!" I yelled, irritated that he was making me hurry. With a curse, I pulled on the dress, put my wet hair in a quick pony tail, and opened the bathroom door. "What's the big hurry?"
Jace held up his phone. It said Grandma Nadine.
"Hello!" a loud voice yelled. "Jace! Beth! Hurry! Grandma has this all figured out."
"Famous last words." Jace nodded. "But we have no choice."
"No choice?" I repeated. "What? Is the mafia after us or something?"
"Worse."
"I highly doubt that."
"Look." He pointed to the TV. Reporters were in front of a hotel, looking excited as hell.
"The news?" I asked. "Why is that worse than—"
"Special reports say the senator took a prostitute back to his room at midnight last night and has yet to check out! Which raises the question, has the senator truly put his murky past behind him? Sources close to the senator's ex-fiancée say the cheating scandal from two years ago nearly destroyed him. One more scandal won't bode well for the youngest senator in state history. After all, how can we trust a man who can't even keep a fiancée?"
"That's enough." I grabbed the remote from Jace's frozen hand and threw it onto the bed. Great. So not only did I lose my virginity to a politician, but now I was a prostitute. I reached for his cell phone and growled into it. "We'll have words later."
Grandma snorted.
"But get us out of here first."
"Say the magic words."
"Uh, please?" I nudged Jace out of his paralyzed state.
"Not those words."
I closed my eyes and allowed visions of my calm and sterile office to bring back the peace into my body. That didn't work., I needed to think about Vampire Diaries.
Damon Salvatore. Damon Salvatore. Damon Salvatore. And happy place found!
"I can't read minds. What words do you want me to say?"
Grandma chuckled. "Why, thank you, of course!"
"For?"
"How was he?" She giggled like a school girl. "Men with power seem to have a special type of—"
"Thank you!" I all but shouted. "Now get us out of here."
"Roger."
The phone went dead.
I looked to Jace for help, but he seemed to be fighting a losing battle with his tie as he tried to pull it from his neck.
"Stop." I swatted his hands away. "You're going to hang yourself if you keep doing that."
He shrugged.
"What?" I loosened the tie. "No snappy retort?"