He Thinks He's the Other Man

After a breakup she calls mutual and confusing, a young woman lets her mother drag her to a jewelry counter, where her mother cheerfully tells the salesperson she is shopping for her daughter-in-law. The story is a small, sharp comedy of errors: the woman browsing nearby turns out to be the mother of Liam, the ex-boyfriend she parted from three days earlier, and Liam himself soon walks in.

Liam, a lawyer whose texts run to one word, asks when her son married. Her mother answers last year, which is true of her brother Evan. Liam takes it as proof he spent a year as the other man and messages her so. She blocks him rather than explain, choosing the necklace over the man.

Yet Liam buys the two pieces she admired, and then he starts appearing wherever she goes.