Chapter OneThe motel is smaller than Lyla had expected for a man who she knows isn't struggling with money. He works as an editor for a popular magazine publication and has a very fast output. His colleagues and bosses admire his work ethics. He goes to work on time and does all the work that is handed to him without complaint. However, recently, he has taken to working half days on Wednesdays. He still gets the same amount of work done, according to the work appraisal that was carried out by his managers a few weeks ago.
The excuse he used to leave the house where his wife and children are waiting, is that he's off to a business meeting, but there's no business meeting.
"And it makes no sense to send an editor to a business meeting!" Mrs. Marcel had cried through a mountain of tissue pa
