My husband had twins with my best friend. I signed the divorce papers without a word. Then he went to his mother’s house, and she went white and said, “She still hasn’t told you about that?”
“Did she make a scene?”
And he looked at me and grinned and said, “Not even an interesting one.”
I closed the folder and said, “Congratulations to you both.”
He left with two suitcases and the walk of a man going somewhere better.
I watched his car turn off Ferrow Road and then I went into my study and unlocked the bottom drawer of my desk.
There were two things in that drawer.
The first thing.
Six months of statements, vendor agreements, security logs, and copies of every invoice Corbin Wray approved as Chief Operating Officer of Rourke & Line.
I founded Rourke & Line in 2011, two years before I met him. Compliance consulting. Forty-one staff. We advise other companies on how not to get defrauded, which is a sentence I have had to say out loud to a forensic accountant while she tried not to laugh.
