I have been thinking about what kind of power can make me willing to be a third party and become his most shady underground lover. It can be because of sex, it can be because of money, it can be because of everything else, but it can never be love, nor can it be love. The third party is a gamble that pays ten to one, but love is the last give-and-take, and it can only be a play on occasion, because once you fall in love, you lose.
He lost miserably and lost all his money.