as “client hospitality equipment.”
My dining table?
Submitted as “executive meeting furniture.”
Daniel hadn’t just taken property during a divorce.
He had taken company assets falsely claimed as expenses.
I found the pattern months earlier while preparing our taxes.
I once asked him about it.
He kissed my forehead and said, “Don’t worry your pretty lawyer brain about accounting.”
So I said nothing.
I copied it all.
The bigger reveal came the next Friday.
Daniel called me laughing.
“My lawyer says you’re contesting the property list.”
“Yes.”
“You’re wasting money.”