Chapter TenPaul lay awake in bed staring at the ceiling in the early morning light. Valerie, her clothes neatly folded on a chair, lay next to him, fast asleep. He had succumbed to her unsubtle advances the night before, partly to get back at Evelyn and in part, if he was honest, he had simply surrendered to desire. And to ego. The most seductive girl in his high school class, still capable of attracting hordes of men with barely a wink, had chosen him over all of them, at least for a night.
He had always been the boy scout: physically strong, mentally alert, and morally straight, trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. Last night things were turned upside down. He could not resist inhabiting Robert's persona and bec
