The extended family dinner at the sprawling suburban house in suburban Chicago was hitting its fourth hour. Thanksgiving leftovers were being reheated, football highlights blared from the living-room TV, kids chased each other through the hallway, and the adults were deep into their third round of wine and stories about “the old days.” The dining table was still crowded with half-empty casserole dishes, cranberry sauce stains, and crumpled napkins.Jason sat between his wife Sarah and her younger sister Brooke. Sarah—thirty-four, blonde, yoga-toned, perpetually organizing—was laughing with their mom about preschool tuition hikes. Brooke—twenty-nine, brunette waves cascading over bare shoulders, wearing a fitted black sweater dress that hugged her full breasts and flared hips—was quieter tonight. Every time she reached for the gravy boat or passed Jason the green-bean casserole, her fingers brushed his wrist—slow, deliberate.Under the table, her bare foot slid along his calf—stockinge
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