Faking Paralysis to Test My Lover, I Was Set Up

"Poor Julian, seeing him like this really breaks your heart." That was Nora, my mistress, her voice sweet and coaxing beside me. I fought down the wild surge of joy in my chest and kept lying there, playing dead. The next second my wife Teresa answered in her gentle voice, and it dropped me into a pit of ice. "It does. Though... his medicine worked this fast? I thought we'd have to wait another two weeks."