Unexpected Sincerity

Vivienne’s POV

I felt like I was in a simulation.

Like the entire evening was some strange social experiment and I was the unsuspecting test subject. Any second now, someone in a lab coat would emerge from behind a one-way mirror and announce the results of the “Can Vivienne survive the ever changing moods of her husband?” experiment.

Because there was no way, no actual way that I had just heard V