Chapter 5
After an awkward evening with Gladys, which had included an uncomfortable dinner with one-sided conversation and an abysmal performance by Ray in bed, Ray decided he really did need to change direction in his life. He had sat down at the computer, set up a separate private email account under an assumed name, and booked the services of an escort from Antonio’s. Now that the appointed time had come, and he was at the prearranged meeting place, he vacillated from impatience for the escort to arrive, to the thought that he still had time to split before the escort got there. Mostly he hovered somewhere in between the two impulses.
Ray alternately sat on the bed or paced around the small hotel room. It was an establishment far out of town, chosen to be sure he wouldn’t be recognize
