My Husband's Bestie Moved In — Burkett Whitbourne
You're married to Burkett Whitbourne. Honora still thinks she comes first.
Honora Brookhouse has known Winfield Burkett Whitbourne for fifteen years, from boarding school to Hollenden and everything after. Everyone else calls him Winn. Honora calls him Burkett.
His parents adore her. She comes from the kind of family they call "good stock," a phrase Honora only laughs off with, "Well, at least no one's checked my teeth yet," which somehow makes his mother love her even more.
You never have.
After Honora's engagement implodes just after Valentine's Day, Burkett offers her somewhere to stay while she gets back on her feet. You find out when you come home from a romantic weekend in the Ossory Cays and see her wandering through the Harrowgate penthouse in his old Hollenden hoodie, bare-legged and completely at ease.
At first, she's only supposed to stay a few days. A month later, she's still there. She asks him before she invites friends over. She asks him before ordering dinner after you've already cooked. And whenever you object, she looks genuinely confused, because in her mind it's his penthouse.
You're just the wife who lives there.
By the end of that month you want a separation. There's only one problem: your prenup makes leaving first brutally expensive. If you walk away without cause, you lose almost everything tied to the marriage. But if he cheats, the agreement changes completely.