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“Aren’t we going to go beat up that ill professor?”

“He’s not ill. But yes. Let’s go do that.” I wasn’t sure what Dr. Clark would think of what I was about to do tonight. He probably wouldn’t approve. And I knew for sure that Penny wouldn’t approve because she’d told me explicitly not to do this. But sometimes I was right. And she needed to let me handle something for once.

“Do you know where he lives?”

“No. But Ian can tell us. One sec.” I called Ian. He answered in one ring.

“Where are you right now?” Ian asked. “You forgot to clear your schedule with me again.”

“Sorry, boss,” I said.

Ian laughed. “Are you drunk?”

“No. I’m with Rob.”

“So you are drunk?”

“Maybe?”A little. I’d definitely been drunker. “I need you to find the address of Professor McCarty for me.”

There was a long pause. “Why?”

“He made a pass at Penny. And Rob and I are going to go pay him a visit.”

“Do you really think that’s a good idea?”

“No,” I said. “I think it’s agreatidea. Someone needs to teach that asshole a lesson.”

Ian laughed. “How about I come get you? And the three of us can go together.”

Huh. Three was better than two. “Done.” I gave him the name of the bar we were at and hung up. “Ian’s going to help too.”

“Fantastic,” Rob said. “Wait. Or is he just going to try and talk us out of it?”

“Nah, he seemed into it. He likes Penny.”

“But you haven’t let the two of them meet.”

“But he watches. He knows her.”

Rob shook his head. “That’s really fucking weird, man. How do you think Penny’s going to react when she finds out about all that?”

“She’s real kinky. I think she’s going to be into it.”

Rob whistled. “I figured she would be. She had that look, you know? And I mean…she did sleep with her professor.”

“Yeah she did.” I high-fived him.

“Maybe after we go beat up this professor we can go back to that first bar.”

“I don’t think so.”

He groaned. “But I need to talk to that bookworm. All this talk about kinky girls has me all revved up. And you know that girls who read are the kinkiest ones.”

I laughed.

“What? It’s true.”

“I was just thinking about that time in college when you and Matt visited for the weekend. And you made us go to a library to hit on girls instead of the awesome party the Griffin Club was throwing.”

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