LUCIEN

"See, it's not that bad to sit without your wife," Olivia said as I lowered myself into the seat.

"It is that bad."

"Mr Vexley, are you a simp?" She asked, making everyone at the table look at me. Was she trying to make this a bad thing? Why? So she could use that as an entry point?

"Of course, it's my wife, and if I am not a simp to her, then who?" I ask, raising my eyebrow in question.

"Oh my goodness!" one of the older couples on our table said. "I wish all of our husbands were like that."

"I know, right?" the other woman added...