A few years back, I walked into our house holding the first ultrasound picture of my daughter, when I heard a loud bang from our bedroom upstairs.
I went up and found my husband, Damon, shirtless, with his pants barely pulled up. He claimed he was just changing because he’d spilled coffee on his shirt, but there wasn’t a single spot on it.
The obvious giveaway was a champagne-colored lace camisole with a blue charm on the strap, lying under the bench at the foot of our bed.
It belonged to my best friend of twelve years, Claire. She’d actually shown it to me right after her engagement party, bragging about how much her fiancé, Owen, had spent on it.
Then I noticed the closet door was open about an inch. Hidden behind my maternity coats, I spotted her hand. She was literally hiding in my closet, wearing the same perfume she’d worn to our baby shower planning lunch two days before.
Each and every fiber in my body was urging me to storm over to that closet and scream at the top of my lungs. However, as I noticed Damon’s phone lying on the bed and realized Claire had hers locked up in that very closet, I kept calm and composed. Had I gone there and screamed my head off, they would have deleted the messages, agreed on what story to tell Owen, and made me appear like a psycho in no time.

Thus, I feigned ignorance. I simply told Damon that I was feeling dizzy and asked him to get me some water. As soon as he turned his back, I discreetly snapped a photo of the lingerie, his wrinkled shirt, and the messed-up bed. Then I went down to the nursery.
Within a minute, I heard the bedroom door shutting, footsteps in the hallway, and the sound of the side door locking. When I came upstairs again, the camisole was nowhere to be found.
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