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relationship. And yeah, I know. It’s nuts.” Becca took a long drink of her wine. “I hadn’t talked to him on the phone until last night. Before that, it 19
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    was just chat. I don’t know. I guess I just wasn’t thinking straight with everything that happened.”
    Summer tapped her red nail on the table. “Do you have a picture of him? I want to see.”
    Becca sighed, got up and pulled out her laptop. She might as well tell her everything. She hated keeping the secret from her anyway. “You’re not mad at me are you?”
    “Sister, we’ve been through too much for me to be mad at you over this. So, is he good?” Summer grinned.
    “Yeah,” Becca said sheepishly. She opened a file labeled “Jake” and turned the laptop toward her. “Here it is. It’s not a very good one, but that’s all he sent me.”
    “Hmm, you’re right. Not real good. But at least he’s not fugly.”
    Becca laughed. “No, he’s not. If that’s really him.”
    “Did you send him one?”
    “Yeah, just a little one. Be right back,” she said as she went to the bathroom. She glanced in the mirror after she washed her hands and frowned at the bruise. It was darker and larger than it had been earlier. Blowing out a breath, she walked back into the living room and stopped.
    “Hi. Are you Jake? Good, this is Summer.”
    Becca’s mouth fell open when she saw Summer on the phone. “What are you doing?”
    “Yeah, could you hold on a minute,” Summer said into the phone, covered the mouthpiece and looked at her. “I’m talking to Jake, don’t interrupt.” Removing her hand she continued. “Sorry. Becca’s not real happy with me right now.”
    Becca stomped her foot and glared. How could she do this? She mouthed at her
    “just you wait”.
    Summer smiled. “Oh, you have heard about me. All good I hope? But the reason for my call is I want to know something about you. Seems my friend has been keeping you under wraps.”
    She couldn’t hear Jake’s replies but Summer kept smiling as she started writing stuff down. Becca was going to kill her when she got off the phone.
    “You live in Oklahoma? Hm. You do realize if you hurt her I’ll hunt you down?”
    “Summer,” Becca said in warning. She really couldn’t believe this.
    But Summer ignored her and laughed into the phone.
    “Nice talking to you, too. Bye, Jake.”
    “What do you think you’re doing? How could you call him like that?” Becca all but yelled, appalled at what Summer had done.
    “Oh, calm down. I just wanted to find out a few things about your Jake.”
    “What does it matter? It’s not like he knows where to find me.”
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    “Now we can double check his info.”
    “Are you serious?” Becca asked, stunned.
    “Deadly. Because I care about you, girlfriend. So hush and deal.”
    Becca fumed as she watched Summer type Jake Korte into the computer.
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    Jake hung up the phone and chuckled.
    “Who was that?” Tony asked as he took a drink of his beer.
    “Summer,” Jake replied. “Becca’s friend. She wanted information…about me.”
    Tony laughed. “That’s a good ploy. Get the friend to get info.”
    “Naw, I heard Becca in the background. She wasn’t happy. At least someone is looking out for her. And hell, I don’t care what she knows.” Jake took a drink of his Bud.
    “You found out where she lives yet?” Tony asked.
    “Nope. And I don’t plan on it unless she offers to tell me.” Jake sank back into his couch and stared at the big screen that took up most of the room.
    “Maybe you should worry about the flesh and blood girls instead of this one.”
    “And maybe you should mind your own damn business.”
    “I would. But you get that lost look on your face sometimes and it’s scaring me. It’s like you’ve fallen for some cyber chick,” Tony said, grinning like an idiot.
    Jake threw a pillow at him. “Shut up. You know damn well I’m not capable of that.”
    Tony grinned as he caught the