The Friday morning meeting with Mr. Sullivan went much as Derek expected. The man was distraught at the idea his wife might have a lover on the side.
“I work long, hard hours to give her everything she needs and this is how she repays me?” Mr. Sullivan said, his dismay turning to anger.
“What makes you think she’s seeing someone else?” Derek asked.
“She’s not interested in s*x anymore, for one thing. Sometimes, when I call her from work, she doesn’t want to talk because, she says, she’s doing something with her friends. A couple of weeks ago I got home early from work. She wasn’t there but twenty minutes later she showed up, wearing a dress and jewelry I’d never seen before. She claimed she’d just bought them and was going to surprise me. I might have believed her if the purchases had s
