What Kind of Day by Mina V. Esguerra

Author:Mina V. Esguerra [Esguerra, Mina V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mina V. Esguerra

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Ben had wanted to call Naya the next day, honest truth.

However, he had a talk with himself and accepted that it wasn’t the right time. First, moping. Then, getting his life back on track. He resolved to only meet up with her again when he was in a better place, and he wasn’t exactly there yet, but he needed her anyway, so what was the harm in skipping over a few things.

Today he was being ambitious. Maybe he’d volunteered to do too much. He only knew that Naya would help him and she wouldn’t stab him in the back. Which should have given him pause about his course of action, but anyway.

“I can’t do that,” Naya said, surprising him, after he told her “the plan.”

He was up late, had little sleep, and maybe it wasn’t the best plan—but the way she was reacting, maybe asking her to get her friends to leak David Alano’s hotel room number at the Carter Pacific was over the top.

“Why not?” he asked. “Can’t your friends do that?”

“It’s unethical to give out that kind of information, or put my friends in that position,” she said, like it was the most natural thing in the world. “That’s why you came to find me? To get my friends fired?”

“Well no. Of course we’re not doing anything unethical.” But now Naya’s arms were crossed and she was giving him a stern look. “I was speculating on what was possible, given your connections in the hotel industry. Of course I’m not asking you to violate anyone’s privacy. Of course.”

“Why can’t you just text him? Like how people do it. You have his number, don’t you? Ask him what his room number is, maybe he’ll actually tell you.”

Yes, that would actually make sense, wouldn’t it? Ben had only recently returned to the fringes of political life and already he was being reminded how absurd it was on a daily basis. Maybe Naya had forgotten; it had been a while for her. “He has a work phone and work social media profiles and I never know who is looking at it at any given time. The other person who has access to it is exactly the person who shouldn’t see it.”

“You can’t talk to him anywhere else?” Naya was chewing her lip now. “Seems like it would be easier to ‘run into’ him at a public event.”

He thought of this, but when he managed to ask a former colleague about David’s schedule, it didn’t look like the he would be able to sneak in. Ben wasn’t welcome at the Senator’s office, not right now. It would raise too many questions, and he didn’t want his presence to be a red flag. Not that he was any good at being “on the field”—but he was working now, and he volunteered, and he wanted to do well.

And maybe he thought he could always ask Naya for help.

Ben started working again a month ago. One month, almost to the day, when he finally got to use that card.

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