The Setup That Cost Me Everything

In my past life, my wife's best friend got drunk and begged me to drive her home.

Out of kindness, I drove her back, tucked her in under the covers, and even made her some sobering-up broth.

The next morning, before dawn, she showed up at our door insisting that I'd forced myself on her while she was drunk.

She was a social-media influencer, and she used her fans and the outrage to run a live stream across every platform, forcing me to confess to a crime.

My chance at an overseas promotion was stolen out from under me, and I was dragged into an alley and beaten until I had a concussion.