Catching My Best Friend in Our Bed

Eric Landry has known his wife Zoey Hansen and his best friend Jared Wheeler since childhood, and the three grew up inseparable. When Jared hands him a pair of torn pantyhose found in his car and mocks him for being oblivious, Eric dismisses it, certain Zoey would never wear such a thing. Then he comes home early without his keys, calls Zoey, and hears far more than he bargained for.

The door opens on Zoey in Jared's shirt, red marks on her skin, and Jared leaning lazily in the frame. Jared makes no apology, calling Eric a bore who knows nothing of passion and declaring that he and Zoey are simply satisfying each other. Zoey, cornered, turns on Eric instead, throwing in his face a promise made thirteen years ago after his little sister Talia Landry drowned while in their care, and insisting she married him out of guilt.

Left alone in the rain, Eric pieces together the past, then learns his mother's specialized medication was cut off and that Zoey, who holds the card to his account, agreed to it. He storms into her office to demand why.