The High-Mileage Wife

He asked her to say yes if her coworker flirted. She did. Then the work trips stopped being about commission.

Wendy travels for a living. Steve, the man from the office, thinks he is stealing another man’s wife. He takes her unprotected and asks to put a baby in her. Her husband already knows. He waits downstairs. He wears the word she put on him.

Cuckold. Number two.

The calendar decides who gets her when it counts. Steve gets the green days. Doug gets whatever is left. Other men are extra miles Steve is not allowed to hear about. She comes home walking carefully and leaves the proof on the bathroom counter like a souvenir she is not supposed to cash.

When the plus sign shows, it is not a twist. It is the thing they built. A high-mileage wife. A work husband who still thinks the shop is closed. And a man in the delivery room holding her hand while she pushes out a child that is not his.