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"Mike’s gone into hiding He's refusing all press interviews, is saying ‘no co and poor Joanie, his secretary, is dealing with all of it He is absolutely on radio silence, Diane, so I think that you could pretty much say whatever you want about this and Mike won’t care" That was all a lie, but Diane didn't have to know it Besides, it was probably pretty close to the truth of what Mike was about to experience as the next twenty-four hours rolled out

She snorted "Yeah, Mike doesn’t care Mike cares about Mike" She sized Jere over him "Why?" she asked

"Why what?"

"Why are you co to me with this idea?" Her eyes were half-lidded, the idea of fa her up "What’s in it for you, Jeremy?"

"Me? I just had an idea"

"What’s your idea going to cost er along the skin of his forearhtened involuntarily and he barely suppressed a cringe, re himself that it was an involuntary reflex and not an indictment This he had not expected He and Mike may very well share women here and there, but it was always at the same time Not like this And not this one

"Consider it a freebie," he said, pulling back "I just saw an opportunity to help a nus just because or to be nice," she said, a condescending look on her face "That’s so 1950s"

"I’" She sat back and crossed her areous, cos to cost"Because once you clai to be hounded for ets requests froet an exclusive with Barbara Walters And even if Mike decides to be a monk and hide in the hills forever, you won’t be able to do that Instant celebrity You will be able to na her eyes "No, not nah of it"

"Then na off hisin on his coffee

"So, Mike fills hed

Now he had her The hook was in and he was slowly cranking the reel "Diane, you’re going to be the woazine But you better hurry, because tirabbed her phone "Where do I start?"

He knew the answer to that and then in unison they both said, "TMZ!" She began texting furiously and Jeremy called for the check Best thirty bucks he ever spent in his life

She wasn't answering any of his phone calls, texts, or e at the television, while Jereh a hundred different cable channels, catching each as it had a segment on the video

"She’s hot, o toward here--"

"I'll kill you if you say one more word"

"But--"

"Dead You’re dead" Mike threw the first thing he could find--Jereht on at the tehed "Bad sport"

"This isn't a ga the phone, Jere on his screen The sound of voices,on YouTube--nine different uploads The most popular hit 900,000 views already"

"Fuck me"

"Soesture of supplication as Mike da veins, ar Someone

Jonah

The asshole had done it Intern his ass Honor a weasels; he wondered how much Jonah'd been paid for that clip

"Sources say the dark-haired beauty riding Michael Bournham's pole remains a mystery--" Click Jeremy moved on to some Oprah channel, paused three seconds, and moved on The rotationone particular ten-second snippet of the video of him and Lydia, a moment when he thrust up into her and she tipped her head to the right, the gesture so sexual and inti about it