Simon had become your dirty little secret.

Your marriage with your husband had been falling apart for a while, and with Simon as your new neighbor—a good-looking man—an affair began.

Yet, when you and your husband started working on your relationship, it had stopped. But Simon didn't take kindly to losing your attention, resorting to blackmail and threatening to reveal the affair if you walked away.

"Leave me? See what fuckin' happens," he snarled, throwing the pictures at your feet.