Her Betrayal, My Revenge, Our Ruin

The air in the conference room was thick with failure, but I' d checked the system a dozen times-someone had tampered with it.

Then, Sarah, my wife and CEO, her eyes like polished stones, fired me in front of the entire board.

She handed my team, my department, my life' s work, over to Mark, her sniveling assistant who I just realized had sabotaged me.

"You' re fired," she stated, her voice devoid of emotion, as if our years, our dreams, meant nothing.

The humiliation was a physical weight, heavier than the knowledge that this woman, my partner, had just betrayed everything we built.