The Gentle Wife Next Door

A narrator and his wife Sarah find their new neighbors, Richard and Chloe, settling in across the hall. Richard is an auditor at City Hall and a whiskey lover who often invites the narrator to share drinks on the patio, while Chloe hosts a morning show on a local TV network and quickly bonds with Sarah over beauty and fashion. Their friendship grows close, and the narrator sees in it a chance he has been waiting for, setting up a tense tangle of loyalty and desire between the two households.