Zach went home that afternoon still reeling. He’d woken up this morning a mostly single elementary school teacher. Yes, he had a woman he’d been seeing off and on, more off than on. They were basically back up friends with benefits. When neither was seeing anyone else and needed to get their strange on, they ended up with each other rather than hanging around the one bar on this side of the lake picking up people looking for a one-night stand. At least this way they knew what they were getting into and wouldn’t wake up to find their houses robbed or car stolen. Both things had happened to locals a few years before, so Zach and Marci had come to an agreement. He and Marci had known each other for years, and while they were good friends, they didn’t care about each other that way. That remin
