All Chapters of She Called Me the Driver: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The notes on top bore a shoe print, a faint gray mark pressed into the cover.I bent down, picked them up, and arranged the scattered pages in numerical order.A door opened somewhere upstairs.Katherine was back.She came down to the basement with Gabriel. Nera had already taken Milo back to her place."Perfect timing. Clear out the cabinet too." Katherine pointed at the filing cabinet against the wall. "Gabby is launching a new product next month. He needs a quiet workspace. There's too much foot traffic at the office. It's hard for him to find inspiration there."I set the notes back on the desk. "This is my workroom.""Isn't this just where you doodle around anyway?" She picked up a lab record, glanced at it, and tossed it back down. "This stuff has been sitting here for years, and I haven't seen you produce anything from it."Gabriel's gaze swept over the equipment on the desk. "Don't get the wrong idea. I'm only borrowing the space for a month. Once the launch event is ov

The celebration took place on the hotel's top floor.By the time I arrived, Gabriel was already on stage for an interview. He stumbled through an explanation of my research methods. Whenever the host pressed him for critical data, he dismissed it as a trade secret.The audience applauded anyway.Katherine sat in the front row. She glanced at my injured leg, then quickly looked around at the other guests."If you're having this much trouble walking, you didn't have to come," she said. "Everyone here today is an investor. Don't make them think I forced you to show up."Nera immediately chimed in, "Gabby specifically invited you out of respect for all the years you've spent looking after Katherine. The least you could do is show some gratitude."I took a seat at the last table.A documentary about the research began to play on the screen behind the stage. In the footage, Gabriel wore a white lab coat as he operated the equipment.I recognized every scratch and sign of wear on thos

I laid out the certificate of evidence, the handwriting examination report, the patent transfer documents, and the original lab records on the desk, one by one.George read through the first few pages, then opened his laptop to cross-check the dates."The patent is currently registered under Gabriel's company. But the underlying technology was developed during your marriage. Katherine will argue that it's joint marital property," he said.I pulled up the transfer records from three years ago. "I paid the research costs out of my premarital savings and purchased the lab equipment myself. Her company only ever received test samples. Every code submission record is stored on my private server."George continued with his questions. "Was she involved in the research at all?""She organized the data twice. The original spreadsheets still have the edit history. All she did was change the formatting."He opened the evidence index I had compiled. It contained 187 documents, each with a re

"That company registered under your name? Its official address is a shared office space." I scoffed. "You've been in business for two years, yet you only have three employees registered for insurance."Gabriel said nothing.I continued, "Last year, you received 3,200,000 dollars in technical service fees from Katherine's company. Of that amount, you transferred 1,080,000 dollars to an overseas consulting firm. Your uncle is the firm's actual owner."Gabriel snatched the car keys off the table. "You investigated me?""The tax authorities are already looking into it," I replied matter-of-factly.Gabriel whipped around. "What are you talking about?""Last week, your company received a risk audit notice. The finance department is demanding that you produce the overseas service contracts and proof of deliverables. But you don't have either."That overseas payment had appeared in the appendix to the patent transfer filing. To prove he had personally invested in the research, Gabriel h

I nodded. "Yes.""You're not worried Katherine will come after you the moment she gets the notice?" George asked."That's exactly what I want. I want her to receive it at that moment."George studied me for a few seconds before writing the time on the service confirmation form. Then he handed me another document. "The custody materials are complete too. She's repeatedly left the child in his grandmother's care or with a man who has no family relationship to him, often for extended periods."You've been the primary caregiver. School records, medical records, and daily expenses all support that."And forging the custody waiver only weakens her case further."I signed the form and slipped the documents into my bag.…After leaving the law office, I headed to the evidence preservation center on the east side of the city.The staff retrieved the corporate backup data I had requested for restoration.When Katherine first started the company, I had built the entire R&D system myself