Lori rubbed her eyes and fought back a yawn. She crossed her arms on the round table in front of her and leaned her chin on her hands.

"Good grief, girlfriend, if you're going to be awake all night anyway, you should at least be having some fun. Why don't you put yourself out of your misery and just sleep with the man?" Wesley Iversen breezed into Lori's office in a cloud of lavender gauze.

"Wes, go be perky somewhere else." Lori glowered at her friend. "If you didn't ...