Lotto

Lancelot “Lotto” Satterwhite is the wife of Mathilde, the son of Antoinette, the older brother of Rachel, and the nephew of Sallie. Lotto is a native of Florida, heir to a water bottling fortune, and is deeply haunted by the untimely death of his father. As a teenager, he befriends Chollie, Gwennie, and Michael, and gets heavily into drugs, sex, and alcohol through them. He has a son by Gwennie, though he never learns about this because his mother pays to keep Gwennie quiet. In college, Lotto becomes suicidal when he learns of Gwennie’s death, but is brought back when he sees Mathilde. His first words to Mathilde are a proposal of marriage, which she accepts. The two are married by the end of college.

Lotto does away with his reckless past, commits himself wholly to marriage, and comes to believe he will never be alone again...