THIRTY-TWO

Sex Arrangements

Hayden was very good at reading people. It was one of the life courses he took when he ventured into importing and exporting drugs at 21. The age came with the need to explore, other than the fact that his brother was a severe pain in the ass and he wanted to leave home. There was no way he would have survived on his own if he hadn’t been sucked into the heroin business and importation. He had to read people. He needed mules, of course, and reading people was the first step to choose a mule.

When his drug business enticed him for three years, Hayden got tired of the constant fear that he might soon be caught by the police. It wasn’t very easy to come out, what with the drug lords chasing after him for years, but he did eventually leave. Some skills stuck with him, however, and the dominant trait was the ability to read people.

For instance, he knew that Lolita was full of shit. She was so predictable, so easy to understand. What intrigued him the most about her was he