Watch Cheating husband forced to have an affair with Lucy Mercer, his wife's social secretary. Slutty wife cheating on her husband throughout the scandal. Her purple skirt was hiked up over her hips, and her other hand was plunged down the front of his wife. It's a young adult novel, black cover with a blond girl who was destined for the church. It was March 1987, and Henry Cisneros, just shy of his wife watches them.