The Deadliest Kind of Obedience

Summary

After I caught my wife, Arabella, and her oldest friend, Pierce, in bed together, a single question—why?—was enough for her to have me committed. Five years in a place they called an “asylum.”

When I finally got out, I was quiet. Extremely obedient. If someone told me to walk east, I wouldn't even think about the west.

Arabella brought me home, her eyes as cold as the November air. “If you ever speak to Pierce with disrespect again, Cal,” she warned, her voice low and sharp, “I won’t be so lenient next time.”