He was a happy man, always had been. Why nothing, not a bullet to the chest, not even a wrecking ball to his loving home, with a loving family living in it, could break the smile that was plastered on his slowly sagging face.
There was just no reason for him to be upset with his life. He held a respectable job, suit-and-tie everyday, after work giving his secretary a sensual bonus, coming to the family and his mini-mansion late at night with dinner in the microwave and all the lights turned off.
But today felt a little different to him, off, somehow.

He made a presentation, as he did once a week for his co-workers, introducing whatever the bosses gave him to work with and then went to his office and waited for his lover to find him.

Their encounter did not last long, his wife came in before all clothes were removed and made her way to slap her seemingly trusted husband.

His secretary grinned and left him to wallow in self-pity.

Life grabbed him by the balls.