Monette recounts how his wife, Barb, confessed to a two-year affair and revealed she had embezzled over $100,000 from her employer to fund her secret lifestyle.

The story follows Monette, a middle-aged traveling book salesman, who enters a church to confess a potential sin to a priest.

If you are looking to download the story in , it is widely available on Russian digital libraries and retailers:

Monette discovers his stolen St. Christopher's medallion on his desk with a "thank you" note, leading him to realize the hitchhiker was likely faking his disability and acted as a surrogate killer for him. Reading and Downloading

You can also find it as part of the full collection "После заката" ( Just After Sunset ) on platforms like LiveLib.

Monette leaves the man at a rest stop but later finds his wife and her lover have been brutally murdered at that very motel.