Nathaniel Nathan had just gotten home and was preparing to return to his unit when he received a call from Vera Xavier.
He had put the cell phone in her bag today simply to make it easier to contact her. He wanted to be able to call and hear her voice whenever he missed her, but he never imagined it would prove useful so quickly.
"Someone's saying I cheated on you," Vera Xavier said, her voice laced with grievance. "They're saying the person who kissed me that night was Sheldon Caldwell, and that I'm all tangled up with Shane Caldwell."
'As far as she was concerned, the only thing she had going for her at school was her grades. She didn't have any other connections to speak of.'
'He'd told her before to just drop his name if she ever ran into trouble. But in this situation, name-dropping to Laura White didn't seem like it would be very effective. It was better to just let him handle it!'
'Besides, this was Veridia. When you got down to it, this was his turf.'
