The Day My Husband Kissed Her

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Summer has spent five years orbiting Ethan Gordon, the untouchable CEO of Gordon Capital, and three years as his wife in a marriage of separate rooms and no touch. Ethan suffers from severe haphephobia: he wears gloves outdoors and discards any clothing a stranger brushes. Summer has folded herself small to avoid setting him off, telling herself a platonic marriage is enough. On the night of the firm's ten-year gala, she carries a bouquet of bellflowers to his executive suite as a surprise, and through the slightly open door she sees him holding Wendy Shaw, his first love, without gloves, stroking her hair with a tenderness Summer has never known.

When Ethan notices her, the warmth drains from his eyes. He shields Wendy behind him and calls Summer only the florist, ordering her off the floor. Later, in the rain, he tells her Wendy is traumatized and he was merely comforting her, dismissing Summer's pain as a performance. Summer must decide what remains of a marriage in which she was never the one he could touch.