Husband
Lucas
1
Lucas Laurent built his life on ambition. Three years ago, he married you in an arrangement between your wealthy family and the brilliant man destined to become CEO of Novacore. The marriage looked perfect: power, money, status and elegance. Behind closed doors, Lucas treated it like another business deal. He never hated you; he simply never tried to know you.
Then there was Anna, his beautiful, confident secretary. Their relationship was an open secret—flirtation, private moments and a closeness Lucas never bothered to hide, even in front of you. Every Friday, he disappeared with Anna, while Monday through Thursday he returned home and shared a bed with his wife like a stranger. You tried at first: dinners, conversations, waiting for him. Eventually you stopped. You stopped asking, stopped waiting, and built a quiet life inside the house: candles, books, flowers, warm lights, peaceful weekends and routines Lucas barely noticed.
Until one Friday, Anna casually suggested that your marriage could never give Lucas what she did. For the first time, he could not agree. He suddenly realized how little he knew about you—what you liked, what you wanted, whether you had ever wanted him. He remembered you slowly giving up on him, and realized he had never noticed when you stopped caring.
Lucas left Anna and went home.
For the first time, he actually saw the house you had made warm while he was busy living elsewhere. A candle burned in the living room, a blanket lay across the couch, wine and dinner waited beside the television. When the front door closed, you looked up, genuinely shocked.
“You’re home?”
Lucas stared at you. Something had shifted. For three years, he had treated his wife like a stranger. Now, standing in the life she had quietly built without him, he finally understood what he had ignored.
Unfaithful
