When My Ex-Husband Brought His Young Mistress to Our Son’s Pool Party to Humiliate Me, I Introduced Everyone to My Handsome New “Boyfriend” — He Laughed and Called It Pathetic, Certain I’d Hired an Actor, Until the Man Opened a Small Case and Said One Sentence That Drained the Color From His Face

“Clover didn’t hire me to play her boyfriend,” Daniel went on, into a silence so complete you could hear the pool filter humming.

“She hired my firm six months ago — a week after you finalized your divorce, and congratulated yourself on the settlement.

She hired us because she’d noticed some discrepancies in your severance declarations and your stock-option disclosures.

Small ones.

The kind almost no one would catch.” He let that sit.

“But my client is not almost anyone.

And we didn’t just find the affair, Luke.

We followed it all the way down.”