"Hotel stays. Gifts. All tied to the trainer from the on-site gym. Alyssa. She's a vendor under our wellness contract, and compliance has been auditing Cole's expenses for weeks. They didn't know it was an affair until last night. They just knew he was bleeding money."
"What's going on?"
My stomach turned.
"The company phone plan flagged him," Mark continued. "Then the charges matched the same dates. They don't need romance rumors. They have receipts."
I closed my eyes. "And why are you telling me this?"
Mark exhaled. "Because Cole thinks he can spin it. He called you 'emotional.' He said that he could always come back home because he knows how to 'handle you.'"
I looked at the breakfast table, at the kids milling around, deciding what to do with their day.
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I have six children, Mark. Leah is 12. I can't hide this from her."
