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Day Of Reckoning
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2026-02-03 23:27:09Sarah
Today makes it six months of pretending, of smiling at their stolen happiness, six months of watching them walk my halls. Six months of invisible smiles as they passed my desk, their hands linked, their future built on my grave, and I had it all. Forty million dollars, traced and documented, proving my husband and my best friend— now fiancés are thieves and traitors.
On a Friday afternoon, I called a meeting.
They entered the conference room hand-in-hand, Victoria’s engagement ring bought with my company’s profits caught the light.
“Emma,” Marcus said, his tone politely bored. “What’s so urgent?”
I stood. My fingers went to the nape of my neck, releasing the auburn wig. I pulled it free, letting my own dark, shorter hair fall. Next, the blue-tinted contacts. I placed them on the table with a soft, deliberate click. Finally, the glasses.
The silence was deafening, like a vacuum sucking the air from the room.
Victoria’s hand slipped from Marcus’s. She made a sound like a wounded animal. The color drained from Marcus’s face so completely I thought he might faint. He gripped the table, his knuckles bone-white.
Marcus took a stumbling step back, his chair screeching. “What… Sarah? This isn’t possible.”
“It’s very possible,” I said, my voice steady, cold. “You just didn’t look very hard. You were too busy spending my money.”
“You died!” Victoria shrieked, the sound raw and fractured. “The car… the river… they found your body...we saw blood!”
“A rental car. A bag of donated blood from a clinic and a mannequin.” I took a step forward. “You celebrated, didn’t you? Toasted to my memory while you transferred the last of the merger funds to your offshore account. The one in the Caymans, Marcus. The one you thought I’d never find.”
His face was the color of ash. “You have no proof.”
I smiled. It felt sharp on my face. I tapped the conference room monitor remote. A spreadsheet filled the screen. “Wire transfers. Email threads where you two discuss fabricating my signature. Security footage from this office the night you emptied my private files.” I clicked again. A photo of them, kissing in this very room, the day after my “death” appeared. “You got sloppy and greedy.”
Marcus lunged for the remote. I was faster, snatching it away.
“Sit. Down.” I didn’t raise my voice. “Or the next thing that plays is a compilation I’ve already sent to the SEC, the FBI, and the Wall Street Journal. The subject line is ‘Bennett & Associates A Corporate Coup.’ It’s scheduled to send in…” I made a show of checking my watch. “Twenty-three minutes.”
You’re a ghost,” he rasped.
“No, Marcus. Ghosts don’t breathe. I do.” I took a step closer.
"You can't do this," Marcus said. But his voice was shaking. "You're legally dead. You have no rights."
"Actually," I said, "I'm very much alive. I faked my death to escape an abusive marriage. That's not illegal. And I've been documenting your crimes for eighteen months. I have witnesses and evidence. And I have absolutely nothing to lose."
“What do you want?” Victoria whispered, tears streaking her mascara. “Money?”
“I want what’s mine.” I slid two thick documents across the polished table. “This is a full confession of embezzlement and fraud, and this,” I said, tapping the second, “is the unconditional transfer of all shares and controlling interest of Bennett & Associates back to me, Sarah Bennett, effective immediately.”
“You’re insane,” Marcus spat, but the venom was weak, diluted by terror.
“Option B is prison,” I continued, as if he hadn’t spoken. “A very long, very public prison term. You’ll lose everything anyway, but you’ll also lose each other. I hear federal prisons are quite far apart.”
Victoria was trembling violently. “Sarah, please… I was confused, he manipulated me—”
“You held my hair back when I had morning sickness,” I cut in, the ice in my voice cracking for the first time. “And months later, you helped him hide the money that was supposed to be our child’s future. Sign the papers.”
"If I sign this," he said, "you're going to keep me here? Make me watch you run my company?"
"My company," I corrected. "And yes. You're going to watch me every single day, see me succeed and you're going to remember that you could have had this if you hadn't been such a piece of shit."
With hands that shook so badly he could barely grip it, Marcus took the pen. He scrawled his name on both documents. Victoria followed, her signature a ragged, guilty line.
I gathered the papers, my heart a drum of triumph. “You’ll be escorted from the building. On Monday, you’ll return as junior associates, reporting directly to me. You will work to repay every cent. You will look at me every day and remember that you lost.”
This isn't real," Victoria said. She was shaking. "This is a... a trick. A hallucination."You're... you're dead," Victoria whispered.
"Am I?" I asked. "Because I'm standing right in front of you."
They were broken, shells of the smug couple who had entered. "Sarah," Victoria said softly, "I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry. Please—"
"Don't," I said. "Get the fuck out of my office."
Marcus and Victoria left the office like they were walking through a nightmare.
I smiled as I sat back down reclaiming my rightful position...remembering the night I spent alone, nursing a newborn, laboring alone and heartbroken while my best friend and husband were fucking.
Indeed revenge was a dish best served cold.
But the real revenge was just beginning.
And the best part?
I hadn't told him about our son yet.
That was coming.
That was going to be the final, devastating blow.
Oh, Marcus, I thought, watching his car, disappear into the city’s flow. You have no idea what hell is. Because you just stepped into one.
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