Unseen Goodbye

To protect the assistant who had been evading taxes, she deliberately gave false testimony in her role as my superior's wife, putting all the blame on me.

I protested endlessly, but the law held me accountable. I was imprisoned for two months. Upon release, my colleagues turned against me, ostracizing me and destroying my promotion chances.

Seeing that I neither cried nor caused a scene, my wife assumed that I had finally submitted. She even threatened to make amends with a lavish wedding for me.

However, during the wedding vows, the assistant, suddenly overtaken by jealousy, ran to the company rooftop and threatened my wife with suicide to force her to cancel the wedding.

My wife, who had always been obedient to him, panicked. She abandoned everyone at the ceremony and spent the entire night comforting her assistant.

Afterwards, she calmly explained:

"Wilson is young and impulsive. I was just afraid he might get hurt. Besides, you were released from prison so early thanks to him. He helped a lot. By right, he's still your lifesaver. I couldn't just abandon him."

I looked at the couple rings she had just put on her finger, let out a faint hum, and said nothing.

She believed I accepted her excuse and was pleased, even making an unprecedented promise: once she had calmed the assistant, she would take me on a honeymoon.

However, she seemed to have forgotten one thing.

She had already signed the divorce papers, and I had filed a lawsuit in court to have the case heard.

From that moment on, we were no longer husband and wife.

We were only plaintiff and defendant.

The day after Ruby Larson ran away from her wedding, everyone at work couldn't stop talking about it. I got a lot of pitying looks from my coworkers at the office.

‘Do you think Liam will get back at her? Maybe he'll make a big fuss at the company about Ruby? Or hang up a huge sign and yell at Wilson?’ they wondered.

"I don't think so," someone said. "He seemed pretty calm after Ruby took off yesterday."

"Maybe he's just scared that Ruby will want a divorce if he makes a fuss, especially after everything that's happened in the last three months," another added.

When I walked into the office, a bunch of my coworkers were laughing. They quieted down as soon as they saw me.

I used to get mad about stuff like that, but not anymore. I just sat down at my desk and ignored them.

They were right. The last three months had been tough, and I wasn't the same person I used to be.

I was ready for their jokes.

Everyone knew about the crazy situation with me, Ruby, and her assistant, Wilson Charlton.

Ruby and I had been together since college and were really close. After we graduated, I got a great job at the company because of my grades, but Ruby had a harder time. I helped her get a job there.

I did her work when she couldn't, and fixed things when she messed up. When it was time for someone to get a promotion, I even let her have it. I didn't mind as long as she was happy.

However, two years ago, Ruby hired Wilson, even though he wasn't really qualified. She said he reminded her of herself when she was starting out.

Even though I was upset, I still put in the effort to help her, teaching Wilson carefully until he could handle things by himself.

I didn't expect Wilson to thank me, but I was shocked to overhear him complaining to Ruby, saying that I had been mean and unfair to him for a long time.

I couldn't stay silent, so I confronted them. However, Ruby said I was just feeling guilty and demoted me without looking into it.

From then on, she made things hard for me, all because of Wilson.

She gave me Wilson's work, she put his name on the plans I worked so hard on, and she even made me run for two hours in the cold to get Wilson's favorite breakfast.