According to today's "accurate report", he was frequently banging Jessica. At least that is what the headline would have people believe. Not bothering to read the damn thing, he threw it across the room as his temper got the better of him. He hated Blake. But he couldn't seem to get any dirt on him. Politics was dirty and Jacob never had a problem getting dirty. But all attempts to find any information for leverage had been futile. It was like the man had a guardian angel or something. Jacob was the mayor for God's sake! Didn't anyone in his camp know how to do blackmail properly?
But of course, there was always the fact that Blake was banging Jacob's wife. Sure, Victoria had no idea that Jacob knew. Not that she would care. Not that he cared, really. It was more of the principle of the thing, actually. To attack a man's credibility while fucking his wife was a bit over the line for anyone. He would probably care more, actually, if he were innocent of having an affair. It just wasn't with Jessica.
He understood that in some capacities, he had failed as a husband. Victoria had never exactly confronted him, but she could tell that he wasn't that into the marriage. Which, when all was said and done, was fine by her. She wasn't either. It was a marriage of convenience more than anything else, something they both silently agreed upon. It had never been an issue prior, her stepping out if the fancy struck her and she assumed he would do the same with his rotating door of secretaries and aides. He knew that she didn't truly suspect the truth. Not many would or could imagine what he had been up to as of late.
