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

And then I followed it to the source, and I understood what he had actually done, and it changed the character of the whole thing for me.

The fund Luke had raided was the employee expansion and pension fund — the retirement money of the people who worked for his company.

Not executives.

Not the wealthy.

The assistants, the warehouse staff, the clerks, the people who packed boxes and answered phones and had been promised, in exchange for their working lives, a modest security at the end of them.

Luke had reached into that promise and taken four million dollars of it to buy a beachfront condo for his mistress, and he had done it while telling everyone what a generous, successful, admirable man he was.