Patton was also a thief. A predator. he might have been a very attractive, very pleasant, polite, and urbane thief—but only a fool would forget what he was, even for a second. You don’t show predators weakness. You don’t ask them for help. And those factors alone should have put Patton at least second on a panicked girlfriend’s list of people who might help.
But … Patton was probably the smart person to seek help from. I had just expected it to take a few minutes and an effort of dispassionate reasoning to get that through to Justine. My bad, maybe. Maybe I’d made the unthinking assumption that Twinswas too pretty to be smart, and too enamored of my brother to be rational.
You have to be careful with assumptions. In my line of work, they can get you killed.
“If he doesn’t, he will soon,
