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Lana hung up the phone and grinned at Nate. He thought it looked forced, but he didn’t know anything about her anymore. He felt like he’d lost her ever since he decided to take the job in Colorado. So much that he was almost considering calling them and saying he’d changed his mind.
Almost.
“Is everything okay?” Nate asked. DJ was a pretty independent kid, plus Jake was at work with him. Still, Nate worried. He felt like he was a father to DJ, even though he knew he wasn’t.
“Yeah, just setting up his ride home today. Jake picked him up early this morning to help out with something they had going on.”
Nate was constantly biting his tongue whenever Jake’s name came up in their conversations. He knew Jake was a good friend, but Nate never could shake the feeling that there was always
