Breaking Jaie by S. Rene Bess

Author:S. Rene Bess
Format: mobi
Tags: Lesbian, Fiction
ISBN: 9781932300840
Publisher: Regal Crest Enterprises
Published: 2007-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

JENNIFER LOOKED UP from her work, acknowledging the knock on her office door. "Come in."

"Sorry to bother you, Ms. Renfrew. The messenger from Dr. Gray is here for the packet."

"Thanks, Susan. Tell him I'll be right out with the material."

Jennifer waited for her secretary to close the door behind her. Then she picked up the top three folders from the pile of applications. She took the first one and slipped it under the third, changing their order. The last thing she had to do was to fill out the cover sheet, by copying the folder numbers in the order in which she had ranked them. Jennifer made a final careful inspection of the application materials, making sure Jaie Baxter's folder and folder number were in third place, not first. She placed her signature on the cover sheet and put it inside the large ecru colored envelope. She then walked to the door, opened it and handed the envelope to the young male messenger.

"Please tell Dr. Gray I actually enjoyed helping her with this project, and I'll be in touch soon."

"Sure will, Ms. Renfrew." He all but saluted Jennifer as he took the materials from her and set off for Charlene Gray's office in the English Department.

"I'll bet you're glad that chore is over." The secretary smiled at her boss.

Jennifer nodded at the young woman. "Susan, you have no idea how glad I am. Now my life can get back to normal. Do you know how many hours I...Excuse me."

The sound of her ringing phone cut right through Jennifer's sentence and sent her back inside her office. "Jennifer Renfrew, Assistant Dean of Admissions."

"Hi Jennifer! It's Johnetta Jones."

"Johnnie! It's so good to hear your voice." Jennifer dragged the phone wire behind her as she closed her office door. "How have you been?"

"I'm just fine. I was thinking about you, and I realized we hadn't talked to each other for a while."

"I know. We shouldn't let so much time go by between phone calls."

Jennifer was truly fond of Johnnie Jones, Pat Adamson's former partner in the Special Victims Unit. After Pat's murder, the two women had pledged to stay in touch with each other. Johnnie had known Pat almost as well, though less intimately, as Jennifer had. In some ways, she had been more supportive of Pat than her lover had been.

"How are things at Allerton University? Calm, I trust?" Johnnie gave the little chuckle Jennifer had come to appreciate over the years.

"Yes, pretty calm. Although I've been unusually busy."

"Admission applications at this time of year?"

"No, it's not that at all." Jennifer swung around in her chair until she faced the window at the far end of her office. "Do you remember the grant we administer here? It's named after Pat, and we award one per year to a grad student in the English Department who's a particularly talented writer."

"Oh, sure. You used to give it to a former Jefferson student."

"That's right, until the pool of good students from Jefferson dried up." Even as she said this, Jennifer knew Jaie must have been at the top of her class at Jefferson.

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