Perfect

“Well, well, well, look who had a change of heart!” Derek smiled as he looked over to the couch.

“That’s because you swapped me into your wife’s body against my will and threatened to never swap me back unless I agreed to attend this function with you, you ass.” A very upset Malcolm replied.

“Is that any way to speak to your loving husband? I mean, you are aware of the power I have over you right now, yes? Now, are you ready to go or not?”

“Yes.”

“Yes what?”

“Yes...sir?” Malcolm hesitated not really sure what Derek was actually expecting.

“That works, I suppose. Though maybe next time try ‘my love.’ Remember that if you want your body back, you need to play your part well. And we can only hope my wife has a better attitude after a few hours of being in your body as well.”

As Malcolm left with Derek to attend the event, he realized that was certainly an X factor. Even if he played the part of the perfect wife tonight, Jessica was still extremely mad at Derek, even more so after the swap. If she fumed at him once they got home, Derek may just leave them stuck like this simply to try to teach her a lesson. Malcolm could only hope that he could convince Derek to swap them back, then he and Jessica could run away and escape from Derek’s abusive behavior and odd experiments forever. It was hard to think that Derek used to be his friend...