Chapter 4

The next morning Myron headed into work. His office was on the twelfth floor of the Lock-Horne Building as in Win's name on Park Avenue and Fifty-second Street in midtown Manhattan. When the elevator opened, Myron was greeted with a big sign a new addition to the place that readMB REPS in some funky font. Esperanza had come up with the new logo. The M stood for Myron. The B for Bolitar. The Reps came from the fact that they were in the business of representation. Myron had come up with the name by himself. He would often pause after telling people that and wait for the applause to die down . Originally, when they just worked in the sports field, the firm was called MB SportsReps instead of MB Reps. Over the past five years the company had diversified, representing actors, authors, and celebrities of various stripes. Ergo the clever shortening of the name. Getting rid of the excess, cutting away the fat. Yep, that was MB Reps right down to the name . Myron heard the baby cry. Esperanza must be in already. He poked his head into her office . Esperanza was breast-feeding. He immediately looked down . Uh, I'll come back later . Stop being an ass, Esperanza said. You'd think you've never seen a breast before . Well, it's been a while . A nd certainly not one this spectacular, she added. Sit . A t first, MB SportsReps had just been just Myron the super-agent and Esperanza the receptionist/secretary/Girl Friday. You may remember Esperanza during her years as the sexy, lithe professional wrestler named Little Pocahontas. Every Sunday morning on Channel 11 here in the New York area, Esperanza would take to the ring, donning a feathered headband and drool-inducing bikini of pseudosuede. Along with her partner, Big Chief Mama, known in real life as Big Cyndi, they held the intercontinental tag-team championship belt for FLOW, the Fabulous Ladies Of Wrestling. The wrestling organization had originally wanted to call itself the Beautiful Ladies Of Wrestling, but the network had trouble with the ensuing acronym . Esperanza's current title at MB Reps was senior vice president, but she pretty much ran the sports division now . Sorry I missed your coming-out party, Esperanza said . I t wasn't a coming-out party . Whatever. Hector here had a cold . I s he better now?He's fine . So what's going on here?Michael Discepolo. We need to get his contract done . The Giants still dragging their feet?Yes . Then he'll be a free agent, Myron said. I think that's probably a good move, what with the way he's been playing . Except Discepolo is a loyal guy. He'd rather sign . Esperanza pulled Hector away from her nipple and put him on the other breast. Myron tried not to look away too suddenly. He never quite knew how to play it when a woman breast-fed in front of him. He wanted to be mature about it, but what exactly did that mean?