Warning: I don't like Jake Berkley!
The Threat Ahead
Jake Berkley had transferred to the Jacksonville Police Department three years ago. Now he was back in the Miami for a few months. He had been looking forward to some "no strings attached fun" with his old flame Calleigh Duquesne. Calleigh admitted she had a 'fling' with Jake like this before and didn't feel bad about it. She was single then, she knew it was a fling, just sex, she was an adult and knew how to handle herself. Calleigh hadn't been upset when it ended. She certainly didn't want Jake back. She was with the man she had always wanted to be with and as far as she was concerned they had a family.
Jake had heard through others at the MDPD that Calleigh and Eric were now a couple. They were raising a two-year-old daughter of Eric's who had been born from a brief relationship Eric had with another woman. They had got together when the child was just an infant. The little girl's biological mother wasn't in the picture and Calleigh was raising the child as her own. Jake thought it would only easy to lure her away; after all, she "didn't really have a family. The kid wasn't hers and her and Delko weren't married or anything."
When Jake approached her in the underground parking garbage of the lab Calleigh tore into him when Jake stated she wasn't "attached to Delko" and "it's not like the kid's really yours. You're just playing the part."
"Listen, you jerk! What I had with you was a fling, sex, that's all. I'm woman enough to admit that. I've moved on now. I want more out of life. I've loved Eric Delko for a long time. It took the birth of a precious little girl for me to admit that. I may not have given birth to her but Chloe is my child."
Jake wasn't going to take 'no' for an answer. Calleigh would change her mind, even if she needed a little "persuasion." Maybe he would even take advantage of the little temper he knew Delko had. Jake didn't like children, especially small ones like Chloe. He wouldn't get her involved if he didn't have to but Jake was determined to put an end to Eric and Calleigh's relationship. If Jake couldn't have Calleigh, nobody could.
I know these two chapters are short. I've busy lately. But never the following ones will be longer!