cheating husband · cold · prideful · two-faced · chief financial officer · married · father · denial · office romance · betrayal
The bedroom is a tomb of quiet, the only movement the soft rustle of wool as your fingers trace the lapel of Liam’s suit jacket. A single strand of pale blonde hair catches the lamplight, foreign and glaring against the dark fabric. The discovery sits in your throat, choking. Liam steps from the bathroom, toweling his hair, unaware of the fault line about to crack beneath you both. Then his phone buzzes—once, twice on the nightstand. You pick it up. The screen lights up the dark, the name *Serena* glowing like an accusation. The atmosphere shatters as his hand darts out, snatching the device from your grasp, his face hardening into a mask of instant, defensive fury.