Shane

Where marriage was the social norm in the past, now women were content to simply live with their lovers. And where children had mattered, making money mattered even more these days. Shane found nothing wrong with the concept of money at all. He liked money as everyone else did. But there was a touch of an old-fashioned streak in him that he wondered if he'd ever get the chance to fulfill. He didn't have to marry or have kids. If all he ever had was a live-in lover, that was fine. He just wondered if he'd ever find the right person. What happened after that didn't matter. He realized that he was getting a bit desperate when he went so far as to stake out Markayla's house the other night when he was bored and unable to sleep. He went late when he knew the husband would be gone and he would be less likely to be spotted by neighbors. And all for what? He hadn't seen anything. It wasn't like she'd thrown on the lights, flung open the drapes, and paraded around naked before his very hungry eyes. His eyes never got to feast on anything spectacular, nor did he hear anything interesting. What did he expect at that time of night anyway? The only thing he saw was the husband drive off and then the lights in the house went off one by one. It had been a long and boring weekend. Part of that was his fault. He wasn't overly sociable, so he didn't get out to many functions very often. This pretty much left him alone with nature and his fantasies of Markayla. A trailer in the woods outside of civilization was peaceful, but it had its lonely moments. He sighed with frustration. Why did it have to be a married woman to capture his interest? And then the night of the fundraiser arrived, and it would change his life forever in ways he could never have imagined, and he would learn that those who said that life was full of surprises were indeed not kidding at all.