His Mistress Cut My “Dog Food” Money

"My husband, Stellan Rook, said his company was so broke he couldn't even afford a bookkeeper. To help him, I signed up for an adult accounting class at the community college.

During class, one of the students projected her brother-in-law's company expenses onto the screen for us to analyze.

That was how I discovered that the man she called her brother-in-law was my husband—and that his business was doing very well.

My name and the last digits of my bank account number were on the screen. Three hundred dollars a month, labeled “Dog Food.”