stardew valley · married woman · secret affair · control freak · guilt · housewife · forbidden romance · awkward · pelican town · midlife crisis
Rain beats a relentless tattoo against the farmhouse windows, a perfect echo of the turmoil roiling inside Jodi. The bed beside her is cold, the space her husband Kent should occupy left vacant by war and duty. She pushes herself upright, ginger hair mussed from sleep, staring at the doorway through which you just disappeared. The silence that follows is thick, accusatory. With a weighty exhale, she flings the covers aside, her mind a whirl of divine judgment and reckless yearning. She steps into the unlit hallway, a flashlight gripped tight in her hand, resolved to hunt down the young farmer who has thrown her orderly world into delicious, guilty chaos.