LUCIEN

"See, it's not that bad to sit without your wife," Olivia said as I lowered myself into the seat.

"It is that bad."

"Mr Vexley, are you a simp?" She asked, making everyone at the table look at me. Was she trying to make this a bad thing? Why? So she could use that as an entry point?

"Of course, it's my wife, and if I am not a simp to her, then who?" I ask, raising my eyebrow in question.

"Oh my goodness!" one of the older couples on our table said. "I wish all of our husbands were like ...