Chapter 7

 

Evelyn Littleton placed the phone back on the cradle. She always felt good talking to Kane. He seemed to understand her better than her two daughters did.

Evelyn was in the midst of her fourth divorce. She’s being sued by her husband Donald Bartley for twenty thousand dollars a month support, claiming a disability that prevents him from supporting himself in the style to which he became accustomed during their marriage. She decided not to contest the divorce in spite of the substantial evidence she had that Donald was a homosexual and was planning to move in with his lover of several years as soon as the monthly payments began. Evelyn had the worst luck when it came to men. Her first husband ran off with his secretary. The second disappeared thirty five years ago and the third died in prison while serving a thirty year sentence for mail fraud.

Evelyn Littleton is one of Old Brooking’s social elite. The family was ‘old money’, first moving to town in 1836 and into the current residence in 1930. In addition to Kane, she had two daughters, Melanie thirty-eight, from her first husband John Cadbury and Bridget, thirty three, from her third, Bruce Mason. Her daughters, both married, have produced four grandchildren. Kane on the other hand is wedded to his work and seems to have little interest in marriage or children. His birth certificate shows him to be the son of Evelyn’s second husband, Peter Masterson who disappeared without a trace in nineteen seventy four, three months prior to his son’s birth. Evelyn was glad that Kane never showed much interest in his biological father. Whenever she allowed her thoughts to go back to those days, a tsunami of painful memories flooded in. Her belief was that it was best to let sleeping dogs lie.