He had handed evidence to the one person trained to use it against him.
PART 2
By noon, Daniel was posting pictures from a private catamaran. Vanessa wore the bracelet he had once told me he had lost.
His caption said, “Finally living for myself.”
I saved every photo with timestamps.
Then I called Mara Chen, a divorce attorney who had once hired me as an expert witness. She arrived at the hospital in a suit, ready for battle.
“He forged your signature, emptied a protected family account, and used company money for an affair trip,” she said. “Did he touch your separate property too?”
“I think so.”
I handed her my laptop.
Together, we uncovered eighteen months of transfers from my royalties into Northstar Advisory, a shell company registered under Vanessa’s brother. Daniel had stolen another $112,000, assuming pregnancy had made me too distracted to notice.
Mara looked at me and said, “He chose the wrong woman.”
