Benjamin is Mr. Average, but has big dreams. Every week he buys two lottery tickets in the hope of striking it rich. So imagine his surprise when, one Saturday night, his numbers finally come up. Ten million dollars transforms his life. He buys his dream house and outfits it with every beautiful thing he has ever wanted, complete with a real British butler. He also donates to animal charities and adopts Sasha, an abused dog. Yet with everything perfect, Ben soon feels unsatisfied. On one of his nightly walks, he stumbles onto a local hook-up spot. Soon he becomes a regular customer, seeking quick and dirty sex with random strangers to provide the exhilaration he craves. But when he’s attacked by a gay basher, he realizes this isn’t the life he wants to lead, and packs up everything to move to the countryside. Settling into a simpler life on a small farm, Ben hires the rough and ready Mick to help run the place. The two men become good friends -- Ben is attracted to Mick, but Mick appears to be straight, though curious about gay sex. But when Ben almost dies in an accident, the simmering attraction between the two comes to fruition.

Six Numbers

“It’s absolutely remarkable what these people do,” Benjamin commented as Clarke chauffeured him from one property to another.


Clarke looked at Benjamin and replied, “It’s absolutely remarkable what youare doing, sir.”


There was the hint of a smile on Clarke’s face as he said it, and Benjamin thought he detected something a little more than admiration in his butler’s dark brown eyes.


By the time they had come to the final place on Benjamin’s list they had seen dozens of injured and crippled kangaroos, orphaned joeys, lizards with tails and feet missing, birds with broken wings and even a couple of bats. The sun was sinking closer and closer to the horizon and all three of them were tired. Sasha had been so excited, meeting her various animal cousins, she had almost wagged her tail off. Even more rewarding for Benjamin than donating almost half a million dollars to these various shelters and animal hospitals was seeing how happy Sasha was.


Chapter 10