Loving Jake by Lisa Lanay EUPB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lisa Lanay
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
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Jake drove past the large Tudor home before parking next to the curb
and shutting off the car’s engine. He sat behind the wheel for several minutes,
as the memories flashed through his mind. Had it really been four years since
he had attended one of George Urbane’s infamous Fourth of July parties?
Four years since he had last seen friends, he considered his closest in the
world? He didn’t question why he had lost contact with the people he had
once considered family, because he knew the answer. Knew all too well why
he had to leave, why he had to escape.
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A familiar churning deep in his gut threatened to surface as he stared
out the car’s side window, lost in a past better off forgotten. He had parked in
a similar spot to visit the home of one of his best friend’s, and for the same
reason. The day had been warm and pleasant, as was typical for Northern
California, in July. Over a hundred people gathered for the annual celebration
where the hors d’oeuvres were plentiful and the alcohol flowed freely,
probably too freely, as several of the guys ended up in the swimming pool by
mid-afternoon wearing grass skirts without swimsuit trunks underneath them.
Some things you can never un-see, he acknowledged with a grin teasing the
corner of his lips.
His thoughts sobered, it had also been one of those rare occasions that
he and Brenda had not argued for most of the afternoon. At least not until
George and Linda made their announcement. They were expecting their
second child. The second in two years.
Jake sighed in the confining space of the car’s plush interior. The last
he had heard from a source he couldn’t recall, his ex was living in Arizona
with her husband and their two children. She had found someone to provide
her with what he could never give her, could give no woman. “I hope you’re
happy, Brenda,” he whispered.
Shocked to realize he held the steering wheel in a death grip, he
released his hands, mentally shaking the disturbing images of the past from
his mind. Although his heart was beating faster than normal, he was ready to
go to the party. Needed to go to the party. He was determined to leave the
past where it belonged, in the past, and enjoy himself this afternoon. He
retrieved a bottle of Cabernet from the trunk with a brief glance at the label
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