CHAPTER 11 A CRIMINAL CONVERSATION “Making love,” is an overused misstatement, the truth of the matter is you can’t “make” it …like a rainbow it simply occurs, a result of the fact all the necessary ingredients are in place, and the circumstances right …then recognized and appreciated afterward …when it has already been made. A natural byproduct of shared emotion that happens all on its own …or doesn’t. And it had happened, they’d made it, and both of them had felt it. But like two willing participants in an unethical social/sexual experiment, combined in the same situation, having the same experience and the same result …they would have very different responses to it. He would revel in it, while she would retreat, a delayed allergic reaction of sorts. As if knowing it was there and she couldn’t stay …was worse than never knowing it at all. And then came the period of dormancy, Jake had come to hate that aspect of the relationship, but it was typical of it from the very beginning.
