Chairman, this is — this is a domestic matter.

My wife is doing this out of jealousy, because — ”

“I am doing this,” I said, “because you embezzled company money to pay for your affair.”

Chapter 13 — Client Entertainment

I set my tablet on the table and put three records up on the room’s main screen, one after another, for every director to read.

The first: a corporate wire transfer of a hundred and ten thousand dollars, used to buy Selina’s diamond necklace, entered in the books as client entertainment.

The second: a thirty-two-hundred-dollar monthly lease on Selina’s apartment, paid straight out of Thornton Global’s operating budget.