Happy Wife, Happy Life

A short story about cultivating passion through plausible deniability.

Plausible deniability is a woman’s best friend. What am I talking about? Take, for instance, this one situation I found myself in recently. I was out at a chain restaurant with my girlfriend, Anaïs, and her friends. As we were seated at a table, she made sure to sit on one side of me while her best friend, Jasmine, sat on the other.

Jasmine was going on …