This is a side-story to the famous "Toxic Attraction" set of chapters written so well by Don Silver, whose stories can be found here on Literotica and other sites.
This story does not reveal any details of Don's story that can't already be read in Literotica. It
does not foretell any future events in the series.
Read that last sentence again!
This is purely my personal take on possible consequences to Dan and Sarah from a completely unexpected meeting with someone who can expose their lives.
It is my take on the character's possible personalities, which
may or may not be different
than how they appear in the "Toxic Attraction" series.
For a reader to understand the references in this story I'd first recommend reading as many of the "Toxic Attraction" chapters as you can. Believe me, once you'll start you'll become so absorbed you'll read all of Don Silver's chapters!
I'm sure when the Toxic Attraction series is complete there will be plenty of spinoffs, much like the February Sucks story inspired so many more versions and sequels. One characteristic of a great story is the readers' furor over the characters, their actions and reactions, and the reader's preferences of what they think should or shouldn't happen.
Again, this is simply one viewpoint of potential consequences. Many reader factions wish for different results.
And to further avoid the scathing critiques sure to come, just know that Don Silver gave me his blessing to publish this.
As I stood to greet the beautiful couple just walking in the door, my face betrayed absolute shock at recognizing the model husband and wife with two small girls. Fortunately they were all involved in greeting their parents and my fiancee with smiles and hugs and didn't notice my face, allowing time for me to recover my poise.
This beautiful full-bodied green-eyed blonde woman came up to me and introduced herself, "Hello, I'm Sarah Williams and this is my husband Dan."
"Nice to meet you as well. I'm Max Kane."
Yeah, I'm Max Kane, formerly known as a piece of white trash since I grew up in a trailer park outside of DC. There's a difference between trailer park and mobile home park. I'm talking, old single-wides on cinder blocks.
We're the type of people that those born in better neighborhoods and economic situations will blame for being lazy, non-goal oriented, or living off the government. We're the ones that those who've never had to struggle for a meal will resent for using food stamps at the grocery store and vote to cut our benefits. Why? Because we supposedly don't work hard enough. And we're not part of the beautiful people, so I guess I grew up with a little resentment and wariness toward those born with natural advantages.
Many times the trauma one suffers in childhood creates the opposite effect, a set of strengths developed to deal with the trauma, strengths that have superb benefits later in life. For me, it was learning to read people and interpret their intentions. It's necessary when raised in an uncertain and violent environment where everyone only looks out for themselves for survival.
My other strength is my ability to see patterns. As I grew I began to see patterns in behaviors, words, languages, mathematics, and of all things, coding.
I'm convinced everyone gets a break in life, even those in the most desperate of situations. The key is recognizing the break and having the fearlessness and willpower to take advantage of it.
Mine was in middle school when we had a computer lab. Now most of the better-off kids were just learning the basics but immediately I saw patterns and hung around after school talking with the instructor.
Good teachers appreciate good students who are interested, and he took me under his wing and began to give me much more advanced exposure to programming. Over time at the public library I picked up plenty of books on coding, documentation, integration, layout, structural relationships and data elements.
These technical books seemed simple to me. Most people would find them complicated.
In high school I spent as much time in the computer lab as I could. When it came to patterns it turns out I found math to simply be a series of patterns as well. By then I started to realize I had a certain skill-set.
Reading as much as I did meant I'd come to cover plenty of different genres. I found Machiavelli and Sun Tzu to be thought provoking, reminding me of what my first computer teacher had told me.
"Max, you have talents that can be used productively or destructively. As good as you are you'll eventually find areas that are tempting to explore but can get you into a lot of trouble. Just remember, there is always someone better than you. You are the biggest danger to yourself, being overconfident, getting sloppy. Even the slightest error or oversight can come back on you hugely."
Those words made sense. I also realized they applied to everyone, not just me. And I also realized that with my resentment of privilege combined with my skills, I could be very dangerous.
So Sun Tzu and good old Niccolo were interesting guys, seeing patterns of behavior just like I did but with a masterful strategy, a strategy that reminded me of coding architecture and layout.
Now it's a long, long story of how I got to George Washington University where I majored in Computer Science and Cybersecurity with a minor in mathematics. This is where I met Anna.