He wondered if she was the one stealing the money.
By the end of the year, he was impoverished and had to move back in with his parents.
It did not take long for the scandal to get back to the clothing shop about Shaun's troubles. The customers and employees could not stop talking about Lisa being responsible for bringing down Shaun's empire, and a woman whom he met on-line and fell in love with had duped him out of a quarter of a million dollars.
The employees did not know Divine, but what Lisa did surprised no one. Everyone knew she had the hots for Shaun, but he was too blind to see how deep her love for him went, and to have fallen in love with another woman was downright dumb on his part.
Like an ostrich, his head must have been in the sand, many surmised.
Of course, there were those who felt he got just what he deserved, using the shop and the customers to further his business, only to have it destroyed by a scorned woman. Fate dealt him a deserving payback, they concluded.
It took a long time for Shaun to get over the deception and pain caused by these two women whom he trusted so dearly, but one good thing came out of this horrific situation. The ministry that ordained Shaun offered him a position to oversee weddings and marriages at one of their sites in Arizona.
It took almost two years to get his life back on track.
Still single, he is now more cautious about any woman he meets or falls in love with, lives a humble lifestyle but continues to ask, Where is Divine, and why did Lisa betray me in such a vile manner?