The Arrangement (The Arrangement, #1)
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Read between July 25 - July 29, 2025
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My husband had a tell like no other. When he lied to me, his skin flushed bright red.
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I solved problems with an unyielding sword. I was a fixer. Straight to the source. And we needed to be fixed.
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So, when she suggested we see other people and remain married, my first thought wasn’t of the freedom it would give someone like me. Instead, it was of the options it would give someone like her.
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Dani
Page 14 and this dude done already fucked this up
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“It feels wrong,”
Dani
It only feels wrong because you've already done something wrong
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She held up the novel The Graveyard Book. “Neil Gaiman.” One of her favorite authors.
Dani
This didn't age well
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Ainsley was a catch, plain and simple, and I was very worried I'd forgotten that to the point that I might not be able to get her back. To the point that I might lose her.
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Sorry, honey. Rules are rules.
Dani
el-oh-el - got your ass
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It seemed as if my wife knew my every move before I even made it, but I could’ve never guessed her moves that night.
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Perhaps the jealousy would give him motivation to improve.
Dani
Now, girl...
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why he’d broken the rules so early into our arrangement,
Dani
Wait til you find out he broke the rules before that.
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I felt more bitter that he hadn’t been jealous of my date than about my own lack of feelings for him.
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The house was surrounded by acres of forest, miles away from town.
Dani
Oh, that's not good...
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The last thing either of us needs is some needy, scorned one-night stand snooping around.”
Dani
leonardodicapriopointingattv.meme
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I couldn’t explain it, the sudden urge to hurt her, but it was there. I wanted to cause her pain.
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My wife knew me too well. She knew every thought before I had it, every move before I made it.
Dani
Bet she knows about that condom in your wallet, too.
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I hadn’t decided to take Gina up on her offer.
Dani
...yet.
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He struggled with situations he wasn’t comfortable in, yet thrived when he was comfortable.
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For me, cheating on my wife had never been something I planned on.
Dani
Wait, he's already cheated before? Fucking bruto!
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I got away with it and, when presented with another opportunity, I took it without a second thought.
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Not the second time or the third. Not the fifth or the eighth or the tenth.
Dani
Bruh... and you're worried about your wife cheating? Motherfucker, worry about yourself!
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Ainsley.
Dani
I thought you were using fake names
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I sighed, and then, without any additional thought, I chose wrong.
Dani
Stupid man
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Seeing other people.
Dani
Bruh, you've been seeing other people way before this.
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We have to move him,
Dani
No bitch, you have to call 911
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We don’t know the first thing about cleaning up a dead body.”
Dani
Aww, but this is the event that will tie you two together forever! Isn't that what y'all wanted?
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That was the unspoken agreement—we were in this together.
Dani
🎼We're all in this together... we're all stars🎶
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I dumped the clothes into the washer,
Dani
Burning those would've been the better idea. (don't put me on a list, please)
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Why had I ever let her go out with that monster?
Dani
Was he a monster? Y'all don't even know what he was there for. I suspect he wanted to warn your wife that you're the monster.
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They were the ones who got in all that trouble last year because the police were trying to investigate a girl who was attacked and the company had no information on whom she’d gone on dates with other than his profile, which was obviously fake.
Dani
What a normal selling point.
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Do you think he was planning to hurt me?”
Dani
Or was he protecting you from your husband
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Everything could’ve gone so much differently, if only I’d been a better man.
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“Have you told her?”
Dani
Jesus Christ dude, keep your dick in your pants
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Pretending to be a living, breathing person while I melted internally into an anxious mess.
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There was something eerie about her level of calm. It didn't sit right with me.
Dani
Maybe that cop was coming for her
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Glennon was always looking for the next new thing, be it a diet, activity, or career.
Dani
or your husband
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Have I done something wrong?”
Dani
says the person who already knows they have done something wrong
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Come to my house this evening.
Dani
Yeah do that, so she can bury you next to your husband.
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“Were you?” he demanded.
Dani
Real rich coming from you
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in moments of fear or anger, he’d been known to lose control of himself. He let his fear, his passion, his worry, and his desire make decisions before his brain could.
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I needed clarity, and I tried to think of the last time I had true clarity. That was how I found myself on Mallory’s doorstep that evening,
Dani
That post-nut clarity
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People like to pretend they have no control over the way their life turns out, but the truth is that they just refuse to deal with the hard stuff because it’s too painful and messy.
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From here on out, I was going to fix things. I wasn’t leaving it all up to Ainsley anymore. I was going to do things my way for a while. Whether she liked it or not.
Dani
But you're so bad at it
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I’d kill for you, but I can’t tell you the truth.
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“I’ve been cheating on you,” I said, a grimace on my face as I lifted my head from my hands. “With
Dani
AHHHHHHH!!! LMAO!! I HAD IT WRONG!
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I mean, are you like…
Dani
who'sdoingthebending.janetjackson.tylerperry
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You know Glennon cares about other people way too much.
Dani
Did she take out Iliana?