CHAPTER 1: SWEATING THROUGH MY SUNDRESS DELILAH'S POV I have been a good stepmom for three years. Three years of packing lunches and attending graduation ceremonies and pretending I do not notice the way my stepson Beckett fills out his shirts now that he is twenty-one and built like a beast. Three years of being the perfect wife to Ben — supportive, agreeable, invisible in bed because he stopped touching me eighteen months ago and apparently that is just what happens when you marry a man who cares more about quarterly reports than his wife’s dripping cunt. Three years of good behavior. I think that is enough, do you not? The AC in Ben’s sedan died somewhere around mile marker forty-seven, and now we are two hours into a five-hour drive to drop Beckett at college and I am slowly me

