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airport.”
    “Sex makes it the easiest to connect, physical proximity and
a common goal, so to speak.” His eyes danced and perhaps he was thinking about
Eve. “But that’s just the beginning, trust me.”
    Once Jake left Saron, he walked briskly until he found his
cab. On the way, he tried to take it all in. He still had many questions about
this mate thing. Did they need to get married? How soon would kids be expected?
Would that become a compulsion as well? How would he explain things to Dean,
and would Dean want a sibling who would be so much younger than him?
    Jake knew he couldn’t move his son out of state but there
was no reason he couldn’t visit Christine. Did he need to have some extraneous
excuse for the reason he was coming down there so she didn’t feel stalked? Or
could he just say he’d missed her and had to see her?
    Or should he see if what Saron said about sex with someone
else was true? To see how trapped he truly was. He thought he liked Christine’s
personality from the short time between sex, but that wasn’t the same as
knowing a person day in and day out. He had a divorce that proved that truth.
He wished he could have asked Saron about the bondage and domination thing. Was
this normal for a mated couple or just his own inclination? He had the feeling
it was just him, which scared the shit out of him. He’d never been able to ask
anyone about his fantasies. Guys just didn’t share that way.
    Jake needed to pick up Dean, so he closed out all his mental
turmoil in order to be a good father. Dean had been staying after school to
help with the sets for the school play. He got tremendous stage fright just
from doing a report in front of his class, so he never had any desire to claim
the spotlight, but he liked to paint. Any type of art, really. His room was
full of finished and half-finished projects—paintings on the easel and in his
portfolio, sculptures on the worktable and shelves, and a computer to work on
graphic art projects. Jake was unbelievably proud of him and wanted to do
everything he could afford to support Dean’s aptitude. He only wished he could
afford more, but just keeping him in private school was tough. Unfortunately,
in New York, he felt private school was a necessity.
    “Hey, Dad,” Dean said as he slipped into the front seat of
the cab. He’d just had a growth spurt but maintained the fiftieth percentile in
height and weight, a good place to be according to his pediatrician. His voice
was deepening, his hair hung over one eye and touched his shoulders and so far,
he’d managed to avoid acne. Jake had had a nightmare of a time with acne and
braces during seventh and eighth grades. He was so glad Dean would be spared
the drama because his son was just starting to notice girls.
    “Hey. How was school and did you have fun at your mom’s?”
After Dean buckled up, Jake pulled out into traffic.
    “Same old, same old.”
    “For which?”
    “Both.”
    “Homework?”
    Jake missed his son’s eye roll but guessed it from the tone
of his voice. “Geez, Dad, let me chill first. And before you ask, the sets rock
and drama teach is juiced about them.”
    Jake wondered if he should mention Christine. He tried to
keep an open relationship with his son, age appropriately, of course. “I met
someone this weekend.”
    Dean gave him a sidewise glance. “She’s not at the apartment,
is she?”
    “No, she lives in Florida actually. She was visiting her
parents upstate.”
    “How did you meet her, then?”
    “She paid me an awful lot to drive her to see them. Her
plane came in way late and her parents couldn’t meet her.” He tried to keep any
giveaway inflection out of his voice. He certainly didn’t want to share details
about his sex life with his son.
    “So you had a long time to talk.” He seemed to put an odd
emphasis on “talk”, but Jake decided to ignore it.
    “Yeah, plus I hit black ice and slid off the road, so we had
to walk.”
    “Geez, was she