A Little Bit of Truth (Little Bits) by A. E. Murphy Read Free Book Online Page A

skip in my step, a smile on my face and an ache between my legs from a rough morning sexual work out, I head to my car and drive to work.
     
    The salon is shut when I arrive as it should be. We don’t open for a couple of weeks yet. Not until we release the finished photos of Jacob. Next week we’re doing some family shots of Maya, James and Evelyn and another family who are friends of Lucas’. It’s just to expand our portfolio so more people come.
    It’s nice, warm and quiet inside the studio where my equipment is set up and ready to use. After grabbing the memory stick from the cash register I pad to my laptop and start editing my work. Damn I’m a great fucking photographer. Jacob looks hot with a capital H!
    My phone notifies me of another text, I pick it up.
     
    Maya : Did you get laid?
     
    Forever subtle is our Maya.
     
    Marie : Hell yeah I did!
     
    Maya : On my way.
     
    Marie : I’m in the studio, working.
     
    Maya : Oki dokes, be there in ten. Food?
     
    Shit, I forgot about breakfast. I should eat.
     
    Marie : Something sweet.
     
     
Jacob
     
    “I’ve got it,” I say with a firm nod to my agent who is… let’s be honest… pissing me the hell off. “Would you stop? It’s fine.” She’s currently ranting about a release of photos of me and my group of friends from last night. “You’re overreacting, who cares if I’m seen partying with my friends? I left at eleven.”
    “She’s bad for your image,” my agent, known as Kerry, practically snarls. She’s talking about Marie. There’s one photo of us leaving together, I was far too absorbed in my own lust to check for photographers. Not that I care, this is my life and I’ll fuck who I want.
    I hang up because it’s too early to deal with this shit and I’ve got a radio show to get to. Why anyone would want to listen to me droning on? I have no idea!
    On the way to said show my driver whips us round to a pastry store not too far from Marie’s studio. I grin when I see Maya two cars ahead of me in the drive through, waiting for her order. I send her a quick text.
     
    Jacob : I’m watching you.
     
    Maya : Of course you are… what am I doing then?
     
    I watch her shake her head in amusement, I assume, through the driver’s window which is open as she waits for food.
     
    Jacob : Shaking your head.
     
    I see her spin around in her seat before sticking her head out of the driver’s side window. She scans the row of cars behind her, clocks me and sticks her middle finger up at me. I return the gesture with a smile and quickly order as my driver reaches the order window.
    “Pull over up here,” I say as Maya stops not too far ahead of us, once I’ve gotten my food.
    We pull up alongside of her. “Hey Jacob,” she smiles sweetly, I notice a bag of food and a holder which contains two coffees on the seat beside her. “Where are you going?”
    “Radio interview.”
    She nods thoughtfully. “I’m going to see Marie. She’s in the studio.”
    “Great to know,” why’s she telling me?
    “Seeing as somebody fucked her and left her before feeding her,” Maya sighs with humor. “Or, at least, I assume that’s the case seeing as I’m here and you’re here and she’s there.”
    I shrug, “I had to leave at seven. She’d fallen asleep. I figured I’d let her sleep.”
    “Such a gentleman.”
    With a roll of my eyes I explain, even though I don’t need to. “What Marie and I have, it’s good. But it’ s not serious. She gets it and so do I.”
    “If you say so,” Maya giggles and gives me a finger wave. “I better go.”
    “Me too, catch you later,” my window closes as we pull away.
    What did Maya mean? Is Marie pissed off that I left her without breakfast?
    Those were her terms, friends… but friends do buy their friends breakfast. Shit.  I hope I haven’t hurt her feelings, which would suck.
    Nah, this is Marie I’m thinking about. She’s tough. She’ll be fine. I guarantee she was probably relieved to