He Used To Be My Idol

This is my first story of this kind, I kinda wanted to se what everyone was talking about but to me it’s mindless drivel, no man worth his self respect would have even entertain the idea of his cheating ex. I mean she’s in bed with a whore and man who broke up their marriage.

I’m no stranger to disrespect and cheating.

I find this whole story so far fetching that it just irrationally irritates me. I wish he would have been more of a man in how he handled them all. Him running away shows he is immature, he should faced her when she returned.

Idk it seems simple minded and very ignorant of what a person is willing to believe but I things like this I guess do happen it’s just not how I would have handled them.

I’m a cold calculating person and I’ve never been wronged more than before I cut that person out of my life. Idk I just can’t seem to find myself liking such a story.

Great tale. A five from me. Divorce and remarry is a great plot device, too rarely used. I know a couple who divorced twice and married thrice, a bit extreme, but true. This story is particularly good. Maybe everything needs a second look, a marriage built on one and done, must end - having ended, all becomes possible, well done.

This story is nuts. What an upside-down crazy story. The prostitute is the moral expert?!? LOL! Guilt a man into thinking he is weak if he doesn't embrace his wife going with other man and enjoying herself. A prostitute philosophy, i guess. That hooker was messed up!

Wife: "You told me u would leave me if I left with him ... after, but why did u just leave me?" Wife stealer, hooker, cheating wife are all best friends, and ex trusts them??

It does make the reader think. Mostly what the hell!!

Laughing because I was reading the comments and saw someone say you're basically Matt Moreau. I'm laughing now because I had that same exact thought re reading this lol.

Once again the woman gets a free pass, as with all Cag’s LW stories. Women can do no wrong in his universe, men have to be submissive, they are allowed to rant and rave at the start but by the end must adorn the collar and leash. One wonders if all men in New Zealand act the same.

Such a great story, the characters were well written, the plot was good, the details were just right to me, not too much or too little.

Until he was standing at the bar, you only hinted at it, but I bet if you carried this on just a bit longer we would have learned that Rogan was behind the girls shop doing so well, he should never have talked to Rogan at the reception, never talked to him again.he had already made more money than he could spend, he should have hit the prick at the first party, let alone the other times they met.

Great story until the ending. He used to be my hero until the ending

This story is nothing more than an account of a man being bullied and ridiculed for standing by his principles until he is beaten into submission

Strangely our hero will not sell his soul to a wealthy benevolent Alpha male. (Like a Marc La Valliere or a 'Yukon', Pierre) Does every woman want to be 'wooed' by a Richard Gere, in "Pretty Woman" or Robert Redford from "Indecent Proposal"? Is it atavistically arousing to be 'taken' and ravaged? Is it a woman's choice to do what she desires as personal validation and intriguing lust? Looking back at a once in a lifetime 'peak experience' like Lot's wife? Yet hero stands stubbornly against overwhelming odds to affirm his personal marital vows against a variation of an arbitrary 'droit du seigneur'. Finally having lost the virtue of his wife's fidelity, he (unlike Faustus) refuses to sell his own intellectual rights to the predatory devil no matter how well he is tempted. (Higher position, more money, a soft swing?)

No, this statement that "money wins over morals or ethics" is wrong. This author loves cuckold stories and writes them too. It has nothing to do with money. He has to get his preference out to people somehow!

In the end, money wins over integrity.

The premise of this author in every one of her stories is that married couples, particularly the wife is allowed to explore cosmic level sex with anybody outside her marriage but it’s all ok because she only “loves” her husband.

The author is a product of her time. A time where narcissism trumps sacrifice, self love and self worship trumps loyalty and commitment, personal happiness trumps trust and giving. It’s no wonder divorces are at record levels and most women over 40 are single, smell of cat urine and have beef curtains that hang down to their knees. A life well lived in the pursuit of the religion of self love.

His wife betrays him with the help of his friends and when he doesn't accept it they call him an idiot and say he's overreacting. That's just abusive behavior and he should have just cut them all off. He already proved he didn't need Rogan so why did he take her back and team up with Rogan in the end? Great writing terrible plotting

Sorry, you screw around one time, you'll do it again

great story, horrible ending.

Kayla and Candace.

Shelling for their master, knowing Luke won’t deal with him.

Luke is a straight-shooter. For once, CG got a guy correct in that regard. CG also painted the two women as despicable to varying degrees.

Where the story goes wrong is the reconciliation.

Yep another week willed coward, he had some honor and self-respect and kept it for 80% of the story but then allowed himself to be manipulated by evil women, and traded away his morals and virtues for more lies, the devil always sends beautiful demons to whisper dark magic into your ear using his silver tongue, those without self-respect, courage, morals, and virtues trade their very souls in return for the beautiful lies and an eternity at the hottest(literally) resort in existence.

Drives me nuts hearing “I made a mistake” in these scenarios. No, you made a choice and you chose someone else over your husband. Then they throw Rogan in his face over and over and he’s “over reacting.” Arggghhhhhhh!!!! Finally, the ladies go to meet the MC on Rogans behalf. How does he not see the whole story is about bringing him into Rogan’s fold?? In the end, the MC is another one of Rogan’s conquests.

Well written formula your formula and that's okay, it would be nice if you would actually challenge yourself to break from the mould. That of course is just my opinion and you can do what ever you like and still I'll read your offerings.

Hate Rogan, Feel sorry for Candice, Doubtful about Kayla and Luke may be a fool. Only time would tell. The first three have very untrustworthy ideas about marriage so I hope Luke had Kayla sign a seriously ironclad prenup.

God, this was so well written I'd give it a 5, but that reconciliation at the end makes me actually, actively hate this story. Sleeping with Candace was out of character enough to pull me out of the story for a while, but the end, jaysus. Unless it's a mistake in the writing that is otherwise excellent, there are hints everywhere that he is still surrounded by poisoned arrows pointed at him. She cheated, and then while supposedly wanting to reconnect, she again sleeps with someone else... in his house! The newlyweds are already starting their new life by trying to have it off with other people? I think there could have been a good reconciliation tale to be had here, but the way this story went was not it. Because the voting on LW stories are so contentious, I never leave a bad score, so here I guess no score will have to do. The author, like the MC, will just have to settle for the status quo.

The story reminds me of "February Sucks" but it is different enough to be separate from all of those stories. I really liked it. It was long but did not drag. I admired Luke because he had principles and stuck to them. I am the exact same way -- I though I might be the only person like that but your stories says there may be others with principles and morals. I too would never give in no matter how much it might cost me. Thanks for writing this. I think this may be your best story.

He took too long to do anything. He actualy conversed with them instead of telling them to fuck off. They never understood why he was so upset and unbending. They believed money fixed everything Candice was just a high priced cum slut and kayla wasn't much better. The whole story reminded me of another "Febuary Sucks" by kalimaksis. Women dont seem to have many scrouples if the price is right. They were right with one thing, Kayla could not unfuck herself, so it could never be fixed. Rogan one all the prizes.

As with most of your stories the women always wins or is forgiven and the male belitled or weak.

The abuse showered on the MC is ridiculous and the reconciliation is even more absurd. To say anyone, male or female, should accept being treated like that is disturbing and makes me wonder about the authors mindset. He should never have taken her back or had anything to do with anyone else even tangentially involved ever again. He proved he didn't need Rogan to succeed and the story would have been better if it had been about his revenge against them like a modern day Count of Monte Cristo

Good story. However, Luke should have told Morse that he was taking Candice for the honeymoon. That would have been apt.

“February Sucks” rewrite.

Just no credit given, a much worse ending, and even more fucked up characters.

This is a good story by a decent writer. However, she habitually and serially overrides to the point of irritation and loss of story quality. She thinks her friend and editor who did her no favors if this is the final edit. An editor of a weekly news magazine once told me that friends do not edit work for friends. You can read and critique for a friend, but a true edit needs to be merciless and truthful in its scope and execution. This bloated monster needed to be about half this length, and it would be publication quality. For the record, I am a published writer and make a decent living in both print and electronic publishing. My editor has been making me much better for over 15 years, but that relationship can be quite testy, even acrimonious at times. In the field of writing, you cannot have thin skin, nor can you survive long on your own visions of your writing grandeur. By its nature, editing is both adversarial and subjective. You can be friends with an editor, but there has to be a professional distance as well.

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This writer is a storyteller with commercial possibilities, but she needs an editor and someone to help her perfect both character and story arc. I rate this four stars.

This is an incredibly well told story. I know the barking dog LWcommentariat hate such reconciliations rigidly viewing the reconciler as weak. I din’t see it that way and I think your telling points out why, whether intentional or not. Although I fon’t think much at all of the Rohan character beyond his obviou business acumen, I also grew frustrated with Luke’s stubborn insistence on remaining hurt snd aggrieved throughout.’, no matter what was said or done. His eagerness to continue to revisit his pain was immature, frustrating, stupid and destructive. Fortunately for him, Kayla loved him enough to endure

it, and Candice cared enough for both of them to put up with it. Heck, even asshat Rohan kept trying to make .amends, ass that he is. But it’s as though Luke was obsessed about revisiting the scene of the crime. Bad shit happens in life, and people do bad shit. If you’re gonna foregive, forgive. Don’t firegive and then do a ground hog day on the offense and sggrievement. Fuck man, move on. Or don’t, but don’t say you are and then not. Life’s too short.

Weak unlikable protagonist. Two stars because, even though the characters are disgusting, it is well written.

This is without doubt one of my absolute favourite LW stories. There are so many characters to love and to loathe, and the plot pitches right into the angst and pain that the MC suffers at the hands of his infatuated wife and the entitled billionaire. The character of Candice as the tart with a heart is a stroke of genius, and at times she stokes the indignation at hers, Rogan's and even Kayla's, looser moral standards, and at others she raises questions about the MC's inflexibility and "uptightness." No matter where you end up standing on these issues, they have all been aired and posed in excellent dialogue, plot evolution and characterisation, and I would guess all readers will have their passions and sensitivities inflamed, and their indignation and sentimentality challenged, at some point. Five stars from me :-)

The author can write engaging stories well. And always good to keep in mind the story is what it is, is fiction and is the way the author wants it.

That said I found Luke's breaking from his principled worldview to sleep with Candice incomprehensibly out of character. There were a few other instances as the story went on but the ending most of all. Yes he was being massively gaslit but simply caved his character in the end because he was berated and belittled again? With friends and 'wife' like those who needs enemies. Luke should've remembered he even said it himself and then ignored it. Sure let go and continue to mature in getting past the anger hurt and animosity. That doesn't mean ignore the tiger's stripes and play with it.

I'm all for a good reconciliation ... this isn't it. Truly loving doesn't mean infatuation, getting what you want, someone being yours ... Love allows seeing clearly, the power to do what's best as best you can, to do what's right even if it's not what you want.

Kayla is a giant red flag, maybe that's why she has red hair? (Jk) She never really changes throughout the story. Every time she chooses listening to Rogan, Candice or what she wants over calling and listening to Luke who's she supposedly loves. She occasionally when really pressed for a moment says she made a mistake but then goes back to gaslighting, doing the bidding her two friends (Candice & Rogan) and demeaning Luke (childish, rude etc). One of the first things when seeing him again after years is tender on his material success, something that currently matters to her more than substance. Loving someone does not man you should be together. Kayla is materialistic, superficial and has different worldview and values than Luke regarding relationships etc. They are not particularly compatible and rather than listen to her husband to develop understanding and empathy, she and Candice mostly deride him as immature, weak etc rather than appreciating him for who he is. Principled, loyal, persistent, straight forward, honest etc.

Love doesn't mean you have to agree, but Kayla never had his back nor does she give him her ear. The story never showed any inkling of her trying to understand him, only desire to get past things, worry about upsetting Luke leading her to not do some things she wants to (another recipe for disaster & eventual resentment & deception)

Luke is not a perfect person but I'd rather deal with him in business or friendship than Kayla, Candice or Rogan. They are simply not as good and trustworthy people at the core and are much more superficial and transactional. Both women right up to the end try to convince Luke that Rogan is a good guy and a real man. Utter bs. Rogan shows persistent disrespect, greed & narcissism. Even sending the girls to convince Luke to work with him deceptively. And the end with Candice painting him as the real man for his confidence talking to men who fucked her. Bs. Luke had talked with Rogan, with confidence and not blind anger etc several times. He understandably chooses to not associate with or do business with someone like Rogan and admirably shows not everything is about money and material gain. Though author implies some caving at end. Luke would be better off and likely happier in the long run without Kayla, Candice & Rogan in his life, certainly at least in any close orbit; rather than being convinced they are not scorpions that will sooner or later sting Luke, the frog, they are trying to convince to carry them across the river.

I admit I enjoyed reading most of it. That is - until towards the end. The MC stuck to his principles till the end and then compromised. Sorry, that invalidated the characters actions and motivation which the reader could relate to. Candace tries to guilt him - telling him to drop the petty grudge - but to him it was never petty. The thing he regarded more highly than any other thing - his marriage - was violated, his trust shattered and for what - an ego game. His vitriol should have been maintained until the end. Him caving at the end and allowing his wife to dance with Rogan marked the end of his grudge but also the compromising of his principles. This was not realistic nor fair to the protagonist. There is no proper story resolution or karma in the ending. The tycoon wins and gets to feel good about himself that he didn't do any lasting damage. Everything turned out ok in the end regardless of how badly he fucked up two people's lives with his little game. How very disappointing. The smarmy sweet sickly gooey ending made my stomach turn. You write this really great tale and then put on a marshmallow shit ending. Blech!!! no rating from me. It was a 5 till the last page. A better ending would be the MC shaking the hands of Rogan's nemesis competitor giving him the business deal on his next invention right there in front of him at the end of his wedding reception while he had to maintain a happy face - but was livid angry inside. Maybe someone will write an alternative ending to this one.

Luke not confronting Rogan over his obvious lies in front of Kayla was... well, it was wrong. It made me throw my hands up in the air and 1 bomb this story. It was the pivotal moment in the story that SHOULD have changed the trajectory everything was going in... but it didn't. I know if the author was just enamored with their "Rogan" character or what, but the setup was there and then it all just passed. Everything after that literally felt like watching a brand new shiny turd swirl down the toilet bowl. Why would you set something up like that and then just ignore it? Checkov's gun... more like Checkov's howitzer and it was never fired.

I mean this sincerely - my dislike for the plot after that event aside, just on a pure literary level it hurt my insides to read what you did (or didn't do as the case may be) there.

If the author had written a story about the MC overcoming the betrayal by his wife and "friends" and ultimately besting his idol turned rival it might have been pretty good. But it isn't because the author fell back on her too well worn trope of a weak protagonist accepting the role of cuckold with the added insult of submitting to the villain who orchestrated this whole shit show

This story both overestimates male sexual prowess and female beauty. No, you little monkeys, none of you are that big of a deal. It's just the Dunning-Kruger Effect making it seem otherwise. But well done in identifying the queasy hubris at the core of humanity.

The thing that stands out the most is Rogan’s constant insinuation that both. Luke and Kayla would both individually have had the most mind blowing weekend of sex. Problem being not with each other. How can you go back to your spouse and be happy with sub par sex? How do you pretend to be satisfied with second best and not go chasing the galactic orgasm with some strange? Cagivagurl in all her stories had a very naive view on love and relationships thinking that putting out once committed to another is no big deal and one should easily be able to separate love from sex. That tells me everything about the author who more than likely has bounced between relationships not ever having truly loved anyone. It doesn’t matter how liberal your views, jealousy is a basic human instinctual trait that rears its head at random times, but mainly when you feel deeply about someone. If you are ok with your partner having casual sex with others chances are you don’t have a deep connection with them.

Luckily I read your name when I finished the first page. Obviously I stopped reading. The problem with your stories is that you are really amoral in what you write. Your characters are cheap and sell for a dollar. Gross.

And let it be known that it is a shame because you know how to write quite well. It's a shame that your moral height does not match your writing skills.

OK 5 stars

There is a concept called "love languages" that has been fairly well researched. The thing is that most men and women do have different view of the love languages. One language is just sex (and physical contact) and this makes up about 80% for men and is by far the predominant one.

But not for women, for them things like "romantic words", gifts, sharing mundane chores, being a good provider, being a good father, ALL factor in as well as just sex and loving contact. A lot of these stories do illustrate this without pointing it out directly. The whole genre of "wives sleeping with rich and famous guys" all pretty much point out the dichotomy. Just sex is not that important to the wives, while VERY important to their husbands. Neither really understand why this is so.

"You have slept with my wife, and from all accounts enjoyed it."

Sorry, but no. Luke slept with a paid whore while single. Just because Rogan is stupid enough to marry said whore doesn't make it the same as him sleeping with Kayla while she was still married.

Rogan deserves to eat a bullet, Candice deserves a man who loves her enough not to sell her off to close business deals, Luke deserves a faithful wife, and Kayla, she deserves a happy ending, but not with Luke, she doesnt deserve the second chance.

5star for another excellently written story which I love to hate. RAAC isn't for me, but I cant deny that this is another brilliantly written story from an excellent author. - YB

This was a well written story but one that made little sense.

She betrayed her husband by leaving with Rogan especially after he told her he would leave her.

Candice continued to pursue him but if Candice is so good in bed, why would anyone want to go back to Kayla? She’s second rate, at best.

And why would Rogan go for second rate pussy?

Why would Luke tolerate being in a non monogamous relationship when he was adamant about being monogamous? Why not leave whatever surfer girl he was dating when she told him she would date other men?

All in all, I’m a sucker for happy endings but this seemed to be to contrived to enjoy.

As of this date 720 comments you have really twisted some buttons to get the reaction. Congratulations a well written story with vivid characters and a plot line equally as good I reread this one often and usually get something new each time thank you for all the work you put in entertaining us

Sorry, but when the girls came to his house on behalf of Rogan - that would be the end of everything between them.

ANOTHER CUCK SHIT SPECIAL from Cagiva"CUNT"! Nothing is better than to givivg a "1 Star" to this "cheating WHORE wife Apologist" POS writer!

Now do your readers a favor and crawl back under the slimy rock you call home!!!

As a young beginning professor at 31, I had married a 24 year old ex-sorority party girl, and had a two year old daughter. She was the socialite and I the retiring academic. So her sorority sisters' parties were always painful for me, but I attended out of respect for my beloved wife. She had one especially sleazy (to me) 'sister' who was a swinger type married to a flirty 'bad boy' type, and who was always suggestive to my wife. And, you guessed it, old stick-in-the-mud me didn't appreciate his attitude towards my wife, especially when drunk. After one too forward night, I told my wife our family was the center of my life, but that I would leave her and the kid in a heartbeat if she messed around on me, and I would not accept an 'open marriage'. Friends and colleagues, including males, yes, but lovers, No. Her response was 'message received' and we never looked back. Was I a controlling bastard? Her sleazy 'sister' thought so, but other female friends told me my wife defended me always, and I have always made sure to give her the respect she has earned as her due. Those sorority sisters and spouse became our close friends. Would I have forgiven her for a Kayla moment like this? Honestly don't know, but ultimately probably. This story resonates with me very well.

Nope. Wouldn't work for me. This is an incredibly well written analog to George Anderson's February Sucks, with Kayla as Linda, the husband as Jim, and Rogan as Lavallier. It's pretty straightforward actually. The wife wanted Rogan 'for one night out of her marriage', and non-consensually declared an open marriage despite her husband's state objections while the Candice-Dee character ran interference. And of course Rogan was counting coup, fobbing off his mistress as an unwanted 'swap' and got the husband's boss to offer him a bribe. If that isn't calculated as dominance-humiliation, I don't know what is. The stuff about ego was just to spice up the story and a a plot character's manipulation tactic.

Sad really, that a spouse would be willing to do that. The husband made his position clear, and was totally right to do what he did, excepting perhaps leaving her without funds. Well written story but a totally twisted plot. The only improvement I would have made on this plot was for the husband to leave the West Coast entirely, and disappear back East or even Toronto, since he could work from anywhere. Disappear, file for divorce through a remote attorney, and ghost the wife. Such a wife would deserve no better like the wife Linda's "mistake" in George Anderson's classic. The ending of this story was its weakest point given the reconciliation after all his earlier behavior. Love isn't that strong. I has to be nurtured and groomed, and it wasn't in him after the wife's exploit. If it was ego, it was self-respect for not excepting a non-concensually declared open marriage. Such a woman would do it again what-ever her declarations. A drunken one-night stand on the road or such can be construed as a mistake, but not what Linda-Kayla did.

steam 692 is right rogan had no morals and very low standar5ds . seducing married women and pimping his girlfriend out was all the proof anybody would need .

What a fucked up story. The personality shifts of people were unreal. This was a horrible story written by a writer that's a lot better than this.

I gave up on page 3. It was endless conversations about his wife going away and fucking someone else. It was the same conversation over and over and over ad nauseum.

I actual enjoyed some of the story sans the gaslighting by Candice, Rogan, the author, and even Kayla, regarding how Luke should just man up and mend fences with Rogan and be friends. That was nauseating and toxic.

But what really got me was the conversation in Luke's Bay Area apartment, when confronted by Kayla and Rogan. He NEVER calls out Rogan on his statement that he didn't know that Luke was leaving. He damn well knew. Candice told him on the phone in the restaurant in front of Luke. That was an utter lie. And if Luke had confronted that, knowing at least the side of the conversation he heard, it would have blown up ANY connection between Rogan and Kayla. There is no way that Luke keeps quiet, except to allow the author to pursue the incessant gaslighting agenda. Seriously? Talk about fiction. And Candice was never a friend of Luke's or even really Kayla. Why? For get the toxic gaslighting snd being an emissary of Rogan. She knew the truth also and NEVER told Kayla the truth about Rogan. Ergo she is not a friend of Kayla's and certainly not Luke. Thr content of that phone call to ask Rogan to call it off, never comes up the entire story after the fact. That is an ill constructed plot device. Meant for shock value but never trotted out again. Pissed me off. If it was so detrimental to the author's plot, then don't have the meeting with Candice take place. Simple and easy. Cannot believe that was missed. Suspect then that it was purposeful.

Luke was completely right to leave Kayla and should have divorced her immediately. Kayla, Rogan and Candice should have met a serious karmic payback as fitted the severity of a their transgressions Kayla's being worst(as she betrayed her vows to Liuke), Rogan's next (being a creepy predator going after married women with no morals, remorse or consideration of any consequences) and Candice's next (not caring that she enabled such reprehensible acts and no concern for the outcome) it not like either Rogan or Candice probably ever looked back to see the effects on the marriages they interfered in to know if they servived, were badly damaged and limped along crippled til they eventually died.

5-13-24. For the most part I agree with Anon posted 15 days before me. Rogan has no respect for anyone who doesn't have the same moral standards as he does. Or should I say immoral standards. Presumably Luke and Kayla said in their wedding vows they would forsake all others. So what that means is Kayla, Rogan, and Candice are all WHORES. They have no respect for marriage, or for other peoples definition of what a marriage is. All three of them should just burn in hell.

The story was written very skillfully, by an author who clearly has talent. But I’m not sure even the author realizes just how toxic these relationships were made. Kayla knows Luke *hates* Rogan, downright despises him, yet she continues to push forgiveness of Rogan onto him. If she truly loved him, if she truly respected him, she wouldn’t have done this, as it shows a complete disregard for clearly stated boundaries. She continues to exhibit surprise that he hasn’t “gotten over” his enmity towards Rogan, but if she knows the stubborn and principled personality he has (and she seems to) she should also know that those feelings will not fade quickly. She also has no right to criticize him for holding onto those feelings, and push him to alter them, when she’s the one who’s chosen to be with him with full understanding of what his personality is (I.e. she has no right to push him to change to better conform to her perspective). Candice was not Luke’s friend, by even a distant measure. Almost every interaction that they had, she was criticizing him in some way (calling him a fool, an idiot, a child, implying he was a lesser man for his views, etc.), and she also continued to push him to repair things with Rogan in a way that violated clearly stated boundaries, and which she had no right to. Like Kayla, she attempted to change him in order to force him to conform to her perspective (something a true friend would never do) and then she would criticize him whenever he refused to change in the way she wanted. Rogan, likewise, also regularly lobbed the exact same criticisms at Luke while refusing to respect his boundaries. Well beyond the act of cheating, which was bad enough, all three of these characters continued to treat Luke in a toxic manner in perpetuity, and he never had the courage to stand up and say “If you can’t respect my feelings and clearly stated wishes; if you continue to push me to do things you know I don’t want, and to berate me every time I don’t, then we can’t be friends.”. While Kayla might’ve done this the least, she still engaged in it. Had she genuinely loved Luke, she wouldn’t have. What’s more, she would’ve stood up to Candice (even if Luke didn’t), after seeing the person she loved be so frequently berated, and she’d have told her friend that insulting the person she loved like that was an unacceptable behavior. The act of cheating was bad, but at least it could be labeled a mistake. The toxic manipulation that followed was worse, and was so consistent that it could not have been labeled a mistake. It was so consistent that it almost felt like the author pushing their own perspective, through the characters, in order to “correct” what they felt were flaws in Luke’s perspective, and I honestly hope that wasn’t the case, because the story was otherwise quite skillfully written, and while a stubborn principled perspective may have its flaws, the behaviors of the other characters was objectively worse (thus eliminating any moral or rational grounds from which they could criticize).

Read the first page and skipped to the last. This is some bullshit. I would have beaten the brakes off of the boss and then done the same to Rogan. If my wife defended their actions I would have divorced her. Seems they forget wedding vows so easily.

A potentially great plot ruined by portraying Luke as a spineless loser. What an unbelievably insecure effeminate man Luke was.

Flipping and flopping and backtracking for the two girls he had every right to hate. Changing his mind, constantly going against his own beliefs and morals. Constantly questioning himself, his actions and motivations, when it was the other 3 that deliberately set out to force him to accept their standards and ethics.

She would not talk to him when she wanted to rush off and fuck someone else. Then she accuses him of not talking to her coz now she has buyers remorse and is sad and lonely. She tries to claim didn't know it would upset him. What utter bullshit.

All these lies and manipulations and he is still a feeble enough person to appease her by taking her back.

After that the 2 girls had him trussed up like a Christmas turkey with all the binds that they had around him, squeezing the life out of him.

I would love another chapter where Simple wishy washy Luke finds out his wife is still getting it off with Candice and Rogan. And then Rogan fleeces him for every dime he has and Luke ends up with nothing.

That's about what he deserves.

Good story and I think it was great that Luke left Kayla. Not doing business with Rogan was good also. I do not think Candice is a nice person for supporting Rogan in his seductions of married women. She cannot seem to understand that someone like Luke can be so angry because of Kayla's cheating.

I think the fact that Kayla and Luke got back together was good.

Super story, just a shame Rogan didn’t feel some pain

The comments Candace made about Luke getting over himself about Rogan . He should have thrown it out at Rogan in the apartment and Candace that she told him to bring Kayla back it wasn't going to work and Rogan chose to ignore it basically tricking her into weekend sex. Luke has made his position perfectly clear at the party and everyone including Kayla ignored him. All three of them tried to push swinging on him he didn't want for himself or his wife. Rogan and Candace are despicable people. There is no way he would have been able to be with Kayla while she is close with such unrespectful people.

Good writing. Poor story. No mention of their divorce. Lack of respect on every character except Luke. When Candace called him while he was on the plane and Candace asked him to turn around he didn’t. Luke had principles and respect for himself and lost it at the end. I would never take the wife back. Story should be rewritten.