A Change of Needs (28 page)

Authors: Nate Allen

BOOK: A Change of Needs

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He had protected her in that regard you’ll remember, but doing so had left
him
exposed. If there’s a recipe or script for these things he fit the role as if he’d been born to it …or it had been written around him. Everything suddenly took on new meaning. Aloof and unattached translated to
deviant
and
antisocial,
self-defense just a euphemism for
violent tendencies
…“promiscuous” and “immoral,” …he was
the other man
, and the kind who wouldn’t go away when told to …obsessed and dangerous,
aka
stalker.

You can marginally hide your activities in this day and age, but you can’t erase or disown them, and there was DNA of
every
sort on the surface and beneath it that belonged to him. Jake knew it would only be a matter of time before someone came along inquiring about the
married girl…
Once that happened, it was
highly
conceivable no one would be investing too much time or energy in looking beyond him …
aside
from himself and his two closest friends. And as time would reveal, the people who thought they knew him best, didn’t
know
him as well as they
thought
….