Audit

She came home and found him at the table with the tax files open. She asked him what he was doing. He told her that he was doing his taxes. She said that it was too late in the year to be doing his taxes. Or too early. He told her that there was an audit. She asked him why he was being audited. He told her that he had started a phony charity in connection to his other legitimate charity in order to funnel off some of his capital gains made from short-selling last year and that he had been paying himself a monthly salary of ten thousand dollars a month as overseer of the charity. She asked him what the charity was for. He told her that it was for women’s rights. She asked him why he had never told him about this. He told her for obvious reasons. She asked him why he was telling her now. After all, he could easily have kept the audit a secret. But instead he’s got their tax files spread all over the dining room table. He told her that his lawyer had said she had better know, because he had started the company under her name, and that in fact she was the one who was being audited.