"Just go, Jason. I really don't need this shit t'night, okay?"The tea kettle on the stove started to whistle. "Sorry," he said and got up to pour my t...a. "Here's your tea, Mel. Have a good night." He left and closed the door quietly behind him.Jason was really a good guy, he deserved better than what Patty was putting him through. She ended up pregnant a couple years ago but it turns out the baby wasn't Jason's. She gets to see the baby from time to time, but for the most part, his daddy takes. . “Do me a favor,” I said as I handed him a piece of paper. “Watch the camera that shows the street outside the exit. If you see a non-descript car follow me within thirty seconds, call these three numbers. The top one is my phone number. Let me know what color and type the car is, and how many people are in the car. The second one is my boss. Let him know the same thing.“Tell him I’m going up Highway 50 to the Falls Lake Recreation Area. I intend to park two to three hundred yards south of the. It was damn near love at first sight.I walked her back to her table and started talking to her. She was an only child, going to school for secretarial studies. She was due to graduate and already had a job offer lined up. I told her about my studies and that I would have my bachelor's degree in business management that year also. That was the start of our dating. We began to see each other fairly regularly. It was about the third date before we became intimate. She had one of the softest bodies. It's not your house anymore, remember? You just pay the fucking mortgage." He shook his head at his own stupidity before his gaze rested on the huge flowerpot that contained the ficus tree he and Gladys had purchased five years earlier, for their new house. With a lopsided grin, he took the fake rock out of the dirt, opened it for the key, and let himself in. "Gladys? What was it you needed to with me talk about?" he called out as he walked through the kitchen, renovated at great expense in the.