My Wife’s Secret Family Picked the Wrong Man to Humiliate

Everyone in my daughter’s parent group chat was frantically tagging me.

“Lily’s dad, it’s her teacher’s twins’ birthday today. All her husband asked you to do was come set off a hundred celebratory fireworks. Was that really worth blowing us off?”

I opened the photos in the chat. The venue was packed with parents who had come to celebrate.

“Sorry. I have a $200 million contract to sign this afternoon. I’ll hire someone to handle the fireworks.”

The chat immediately filled with sneering replies.

“Keep pretending! You’d think he ran some huge business!”