The lonely husbands club had a new member, and his name was Tristan Asher. If he had known that being shut out would be the cost of kissing his wife, Tristan never would have done it.
But the mistake had already been made. He had kissed Ariel. And now he was paying for it. and his payment for the horrible act that he had committed was his wife shunning him. When he woke up in the morning to go to work, Ariel was gone. At lunch, she did not come to eat with him. Instead Tristan did his best to bury himself and work, ignoring Lucy's worried looks and not bothering to touch the lunches that she ordered for him.
When he finally did knock off and go home, it would often be to find his meal waiting for him. But Ariel nowhere in sight. Even though most nights he did not want to, every time that Tristan found a plate of food waiting for him. The CEO forced himself to sit at the table and not leave until every bite was consumed.
