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The Good Wife

4 chapters

~10 min read

While her husband is away, a lonely wife downloads Tinder for a harmless confidence boost, but a single match pulls her into a vortex of explicit texts and compromising videos. Now, every reluctant click brings her closer to crossing a line that will shatter her carefully constructed life.

MEET THE CHARACTERS

Lisa Moretti

A 31-year-old Italian beauty with a cascade of jet-black hair that falls past her shoulders. She has a dancer's build—slender with small, pert breasts and a famously generous, round backside that fills out her jeans in a way that makes strangers look twice. There's a restless energy in her dark eyes lately, a hunger for validation that her quiet suburban life hasn't been feeding.

Marcus Thorne

A 34-year-old financial analyst with a swimmer's build and an easy, confident smile that photographs well. His style is calculated casual—expensive sweaters, smartwatch always on his wrist. He moves through the world with a quiet assurance that reads as attentive, not arrogant, making women feel like they're the only person in the room.

EXPLORE CHAPTERS

The First Swipe

The app icon glowed on her screen. Lisa’s thumb hovered, her husband’s face in the kitchen photo frame a silent judge. She tapped. The first profile loaded: Marcus. Confident smile, intelligent eyes. Her pulse jumped. She swiped right. The immediate ‘It’s a Match!’ notification made her stomach flip—a hot, guilty curl of excitement low in her belly. This was real now.

Chapter 2

Hesitantly accepts to send him her number. The move to WhatsApp. The chat there. She confesses to having a husband. He doesn’t mind. He’s a straight shooter. Probing personal questions turn to more and more obvious sexual innuendos, to then sexting, to deciding whether or not to sending a photo.

Chapter 3

Lisa wakes up, slight feeling of guilt but also feeling dangerous and alive in a good way. She had fun, multiple orgasms and still loved her husband. No emotional attachment to Marcus. Just raw animal physical attraction. She realised that although Marcus was particularly seductive, it could have been any other stranger, that’s what was exciting. Making a stranger go wild and come for her and coming to him. Lisa goes about her normal day just fine. Later that day in the late afternoon she gets a text from Marcus asking if she’s coming over. Lisa laughs and says no. He practically begs her and jokes with her. Lisa is feeling a lot more confident today and eventually caves and agrees.

Chapter 4

It’s 7pm and Lisa starts getting ready for her naughty adventure. She’s filled with thrill and excitement and guilt. A cocktail of emotions brewing inside her. She takes a steaming hot shower, dries her hair, picks out her nicest lingerie, puts on her black dress and does her hair and make up. She calls her uber who picks her up 10min later to take her to Marcus’ flat. In the journey her mind races. She knows she’s in control and can stop it at any point. Or is she? She thinks about the control aspect and wonders if it’s an illusion and whether or not it’s her being controlled that’s such a turn on. She liked being submissive but also liked what it did to others. Almost an oxymoron: submissive domination. She arrives at her destination and rings the bell. She’s buzzed in and makes her way into the building. Nothing fancy about the building. She gets the elevator to the 3rd floor and arrives at Marcus’s door. The door opens but it’s not Marcus, it’s another man about 6ft, dimples, brown hair and brown eyes. He greets her and says ‘you must be here for Marcus, I’m his roommate’. She’s surprised Marcus has a roommate. She had pictured him as a powerful Christian Grey type of guy but it turns out he was much more “normal”. Marcus emerges from the kitchen with three cocktails and they all sit down and share drinks and laughs. Marcus’s roommate Xavier, is quite openly flirty and charming. Lisa finds herself relaxing after a few drinks. Eventually, Marcus leads Lisa to his bedroom.