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The Departure

Penulis: Ms. Chiamaka
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-09-30 02:49:02

Savannah

So here’s the thing about leaving: it never feels the way you picture it. I thought it would be dramatic, maybe even painful, like some big moment where everything would suddenly make sense. But when it actually happened? It was quiet and just sad.

That night, as I walked across campus with my bag slung over my shoulder, I felt overwhelmed with silence, the kind that makes you hear your own footsteps too loud. Jack was waiting by the car, leaning on the door like he’d been standing there for hours, with his hands shoved in his pockets.

I heaved a deep sigh and slowly approached him, and as soon as he saw me, he leaned forward slowly, his eyes boring straight to mine. “Savannah,” he paused and looked at me again, “Is this what you really want?”

I don’t know why, but those words froze me. But let’s be real. It’s easy to hype yourself up when it’s just you in your room, saying, ‘I’m ready, I’ve made my decision, this is the right move.’ But when someone looks you in the eye and
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  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   Quiet Battles

    SavannahHave you ever had so much going on in your head that it feels like your thoughts are louder than everything around you? That was me all week. Between the chaos at the construction site and the board breathing down my neck, I could barely focus on anything else.Apparently, a group of goons had shown up at the project site and stopped all work, claiming ownership issues. It was the kind of corporate mess my dad used to handle with a team of lawyers, manpower, and PR strategists, but this was my project now. My responsibility. And the problem was, I had no idea what to do about it.I kept trying to think of a solution, some way to get things moving again, but every time I came close, it just felt like I was circling the same wall over and over.At school, I’d sit in lectures and stare blankly at the board while the professor talked about management models or market competition. None of it stuck. My mind was always elsewhere. back at that construction site, picturing the halted

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   First Wins and First Cracks

    SavannahI don’t know what it is about school gossip, but it spreads faster than wildfire and burns twice as long. After the whole Julian incident, I decided I wasn’t going to give anyone the satisfaction of seeing me rattled, even though deep down inside, some of the things they said moved me. But I did what I do best and chose to focus on the things I needed to do.The boardroom test was coming up in a few days, and this was the one thing I couldn’t afford to mess up. It wasn’t just some mock trial or classroom project; this was real. The construction division of my father’s company was falling apart after a series of delays and cost overruns, and the board wanted me to come up with a turnaround plan. This was my first real test, and I couldn’t afford to mess it up.So, I pulled back from everything. No more parties, no more chatter, no more reacting to whispers. Every free period I had, I was in the library with my laptop and about six cups of coffee, working on numbers, blueprints

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   The Rumor Mill

    Savannah By the time I got to school the next morning, everyone already had something to say. It was just one of those things you could feel in the air before you even walked in, the kind of quiet that isn’t really quiet. I didn’t need anyone to tell me what it was about. The fight at Harper’s party had made it online, and of course, everyone was eating it up.I’d seen the clip before coming in. Someone had recorded the moment Julian dropped that guy with one move, and it looked worse than it actually was. No one cared about what led to it; they only saw me standing there, shocked, while he pulled me away. Just perfect. Exactly the kind of attention I needed. The new girl and the golden boy.I kept my head down, pretending I didn’t notice the stares and whispers. During my first class, I could hear a couple of people whispering behind me. One of them said something like, “She must really have him wrapped around her finger, isn’t that crazy? She’s been here, what? Two weeks and alread

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   The Clash

    SavannahAfter the Harper scene died down, I told myself I deserved a drink. Nothing too strong, just something enough to ease the leftover tension buzzing in my chest. So, I made my way to the drink table, poured something that looked vaguely safe into a glass, and took a slow sip. It was stronger than I expected, the kind that burned a little but made the world soften around the edges.I stood there for a while, but then slowly my senses filled, and before I knew it, I was laughing with a few random classmates who’d decided I was finally someone they could talk to. The music was softer now, and for the first time that night, I felt almost normal. Not “the new girl,” not “Ethan Ford’s daughter”, just Savannah. That was when I began to feel like this whole fitting-in thing wasn’t impossible after all. That illusion lasted maybe ten minutes, because in the next, two guys I’d seen around, one tall and sandy-haired, the other shorter with a smug grin, wandered over with drinks in hand.

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   Standing Her Ground

    SavannahI spent the entire week working on our project, mostly by myself, because Julian decided that he had better things to do. I figured it was his way of not having to be around me too much, and frankly, I didn’t mind. I wasn’t exactly breezy with him around all the time.By the end of the week, an invitation slid across my desk during class. There was no note, no explanation, just a cream-colored card with gold trim and a time, place, and date written in neat cursive. When I flipped it over, the name stamped on the back told me everything I needed to know: Claudia Harrington.Claudia was one of those students who carried herself like her family name was a crown. She didn’t speak much to me, but people talked a lot of big deal about the parties she threw. They were supposed to be the place to be if you wanted to be noticed. Which, of course, made me wonder why I had been invited.I stared at that card for longer than I should have, debating whether it was a setup. It was too easy

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   The Unexpected Offer

    SavannahThe week leading up to the boardroom test felt like one long blur of planning and second-guessing. Every spare minute outside of class, I spent trying to rally up a small team of people who could help me with the task. The board hadn’t made things easy, and I knew better than to walk into that room without some kind of backup.At first, my mind wandered to Devon. Reaching out to him felt like the obvious move. He knew me, he knew how I worked, and together we’d gotten through challenges before. But each time I thought about picking up my phone, something inside me stopped. If I wanted to make this transition real, if I truly wanted to leave my old life behind, then I couldn’t keep going back to the same people, the same patterns. I couldn’t expect comfort and change at the same time. And so I refused to call him.Instead, I forced myself to step into unfamiliar waters. I started paying closer attention in my business classes, watching how certain students handled themselves,

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