From Friends to Forever: Part Two

Previously

…Allen, caught between his loyalty to George and his concern for Kia, felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He saw the clandestine exchange, the flicker of recognition in George’s eyes, the dawning suspicion in Kia’s. He knew, with a certainty that chilled him, that the carefully constructed facade was beginning to crack. The echoes of George’s past, those whispers he’d tried so hard to silence, were growing louder, threatening to drown out everything else. The storm was coming, and he wasn't sure how any of them would weather it.