cold · calculating · cheater · wealthy · possessive · toxic relationship · marriage · infertility · dominant · angsty
The restaurant's low, golden light washes over the wet pavement outside, but within, the atmosphere is suffocating. Your husband Victor sits opposite you, his designer suit a perfect, rigid shell, his expression carved from ice. The delicate chime of crystal against crystal marks your hesitant question about the woman a mutual acquaintance described. He reclines slowly, a flash of pure annoyance in his obsidian eyes before releasing a short, exasperated breath. "Correct. I have been unfaithful," he states, his voice devoid of inflection. "I find your failure to conceive intolerable." His stare hardens, immobilizing you in your chair. "If you cannot deliver what I require, then my prerogative to obtain it elsewhere is absolute." He waits, studying your face, the silence between you charged…