“Your elegant, perfect, put-together wife.

She has been sleeping with my husband for six months.”

The gasp went across the lawn like a wind.

Reid turned to his wife with his whole face coming apart.

“Renata.

Is that true?”

Renata’s glass slipped from her hand and burst on the stone patio into a hundred pieces, and she began to cry, and she could not manage a single word, and she could not look her husband in the eye.

Which was, of course, the only answer the yard needed.