DANGEROUS LOVE
Ivan, equally wounded, made the same small defeated gesture as Megat, two grown men reduced to silent suffering by their own wives' affectionate betrayal.
"Come inside," Eira said warmly, waving everyone through.
Adira and Eira looked at their husbands as they were standing awkwardly, clearly enjoying the moment a beat longer than necessary before finally relenting and letting them back into the fold.
The group settled into the sitting room eventually, the conversation drifting into easy, familiar rhythms — old friends catching up on years they'd missed, husbands trading wounded looks behind their wives' backs, the whole house humming with a kind of chaos that only long history could produce