Kapitel 10: Chapter 10

“Call me when you need to talk, Jack.” Then Tom had slipped him a black card and walked off. Later, Jack discovered it read My condolences

Jack had been pissed at first. What kind of friend did something like that? And if Tom had lingered, Jack would have kicked his ass.

Gradually, he’d come to realize his friend had seen something in Julie that Jack had been too besotted to notice.

Now, knowing his track record of making poor choices when it came to the women he’d married, he began to second-guess himself.

What scared him the most was the possibility this action could be the beginning of the end of a friendship he valued more than anything except his kids. Half a dozen times he reached for the phone to cancel. He even got as far as dialing the first three digits of Tom’s number.