“Why do you have such an obscene book?” Magnolia had a secret that even her husband of fifteen years, Eric Hubert, the chairman of the Hubert Group, did not know about. Magnolia was a writer of adult novels! In a marriage that was now loveless, all of the years of creeping boredom suffocated Magnolia, and writing was her only breathing room. It was her only escape. “Have you er- by chance… read it?” “Of course not. Too many nice trees sacrificed just to have someone make such trash into a book. It’s a scandal really.” Eric Hubert, the very dignified CEO of the Hubert Group, a man who published only quality books of merit. That is why Magnolia wondered… if he ever found out she wrote those ‘trashy’ novels, would he still want to be married to her and why…?
