Chapter Five Getting through the rest of the weekend, and then the following workweek, was a torment such as Tom had never before experienced. His conduct at the previous boys’ night out, when he so callously had bet his own wife on a poker hand—and then lost!—had been unforgivable, and he knew, deeply ashamed and contrite, that he deserved his aggrieved wife’s scorn. He had wronged his blameless, busty blonde angel immensely. Thinking only of himself, he had demeaned her sacred honor before all his supposed friends who listened wide-eyed and breathless and erect. Yes, erect, literally erect—for when Tom, grinning in his eagerness to get Mike to accept the bet, had piled on every juicy, dirty detail he could think of, he had seen the betraying stiffness in the crotches of the pants of t

