Chapter 5
Shane occasionally had to stop and pinch himself. How could life change so dramatically, so rapidly? Of course, he knew it was entirely possible. His mother had developed a cough, taken herself off to the doctor for tests, and the results had come back three days later—positive for lung cancer. Six months later, she was dead. She’d never smoked a day in her life, but for some reason, the universe had seen fit to curse her with it anyway. And his father. Always so loving and always there for his wife and children, had taken off the minute Shane had turned eighteen. He’d got home one day and found all his father’s things gone. His clothes, his tools, and the car. His older brother had left home two years earlier. He had married a girl and gone to live in Melbourne. But Shane, who
