"What the fuck are you talking about?" Heather was yelling at the top of her lungs as the people at the meeting stared at her.
"I'm being evicted? I own the house." Heather was pacing the room as the members of the board of directors of her gated community informed her of their decision.
"Mrs. Regan. It is evident that you have been having, shall we say, unacceptable relations with the staff. We cannot have that at Winterwood. You will get the full amount for your home and we have already arranged for a moving truck for the end of the week."
Heather just glared at her neighbors. At forty-two, she was much younger then most of her neighbors. In her mind, she figured that these old people had pretty much dried up when it came to sex. It wasn't her fault that younger guys found her attractive. It wasn't her fault that she had gone from teaching the tennis coach how to have sex to fooling around with the lifeguard after hours at the pool.
"Fine." Heather stormed out of the meeting room and walked straight to the pool. Mark was there and he tried to avoid her.
"Mark. Just come over here."
Mark walked over to Heather.
"I'm sorry if this costs you your job. I'm moving out at the end of the week. It was great while it lasted."
"I know." That was all Mark could say and then he watched the woman who had taken his virginity walk away from him forever.
***
Heather had moved from her bungalow to a condo apartment. She had spent the last two months examining her life and realized that she was through with men. Her first boyfriend had been her first everything and when they got married after college she had been thrust into the life of a stay at home wife. When her husband had died, just after their fifteen-year wedding anniversary, she realized she had nothing. They had chosen never to have children. She had money, but that was really her husband's money not hers. She had just been asked to leave the prestigious gated community she had lived in for the last five years for what the board of directors considered "inappropriate relations with staff members."