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My Stolen Providence Chapter 22
The signing ceremony went ahead as scheduled. Beacon Tech had completed every technical test, and Summit Group's Liverian project officially began. Applause filled the venue when the contracts were exchanged. Peter stood beside me. "When I first invited you to join us, I thought I'd have to wait another six months. What made you change your mind so suddenly?" I looked toward the audience. "I finally understood that some places aren't homes, just habits that keep you trapped." Peter handed me the pen for the signing without asking anything else. "Then I'm glad you found your way out." When it was time for the team photograph, I instinctively started moving to the side. My colleagues laughed and pushed me into the center. "Leon, if you're not going to stand in the middle, who is?" The camera flashed. I did not step back again. In the photo, everyone had a relaxed smile on their faces. Nobody needed me to give up my place, and nobody told me that standing in the center m
My Stolen Providence Chapter 21
The day before the signing of the project, Grant arranged for the last of my belongings to be returned. We met in a conference room at a notary's office. They had already been waiting for a long time when I arrived. On the table were an inventory, bank records, and several sealed boxes. Natalie had returned all the money I had contributed to our wedding account and paid for the damage to my books, picture frames, and suit. The signed agreement ending our engagement was placed on top. "I got the deposit back from the hotel meant for the honeymoon, too," she said quietly. "I also bought another suit exactly like the original." "There's no need," I said. I crossed that item off the list. "The suit someone else wore means nothing to me. Neither does a new one." Natalie looked down and said nothing else. Claire pushed the restored watch toward me. Its broken glass had been replaced, and the repaired mechanism was ticking again. It still had its original dial, cracks and all. D
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Two months later, I flew back with Summit Group's team. Our new project was ready to launch, and the signing ceremony had been scheduled at the international conference center downtown. However, someone had apparently leaked my itinerary. Before the plane landed, my assistant told me that my family and Natalie were all waiting at the airport's arrivals area. I kept to our planned route and told the team to use the exit for business class passengers. When the doors opened, I saw them at once. Mom held a heavy coat. The weather had just turned cold, and she probably still remembered that I was scared of the cold. Claire held my work notebook. Dad stood at the back, his posture not as straight as it used to be. Natalie carried a bouquet of white roses. They had once been my favorite flowers. She had never remembered that in the three years we were engaged. Now that she did, it was too late. Mom stepped forward. "Leon, it's cold outside." My assistant helped me put on
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Ryan did not show much sorrow on the day he was removed from his position. He simply took off his employee badge and knocked everything in his office off to the floor. "Happy now?" Claire stood in the doorway. "Taking credit for someone else's work and misleading the media are both grounds for firing you." "Oh, that sounds so, very noble," Ryan said as he pulled an envelope of documents from his drawer and threw it at Claire's feet. "You think getting rid of me will bring Leon back?" Inside were a notice withdrawing a board appointment and a draft agreement to place company shares in trust. A year after I was reunited with the family, Dad had intended to put me on the board and transfer five percent of the company's shares to me. After the accident, he had withdrawn the appointment and marked those shares for Ryan's trust instead. Dad had signed the documents. Claire's expression changed as she looked up. "Dad said he was only postponing it." Ryan sneered. "He lied to
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After all the guests had left, my family remained at the hotel. The jacket was still lying in a heap on the stage. Dad sat in the front row. He suddenly looked so much older now. Mom covered her face. "Ryan was right. We didn't just find out today that he had just recovered his memory." Claire closed her eyes. In the third week after the accident, Ryan had correctly named the floor my office was on. I had only moved to that office after returning to the family. She had known something was wrong even then, but Ryan had cried and said he had only dreamed about it, so she had chosen to believe him. Mom had also noticed long ago how easily he opened the storage cabinet that had been changed during the renovation. And Natalie had known he had recovered at least part of his memory when he recited the new lock code to our house. Dad had seen the doctor's report from Ryan's checkup before the engagement party. It stated that Ryan had no ongoing memory impairment. They had not b
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The day originally set for the engagement ceremony arrived. Ryan put on my suit early that morning. His eyes were red from crying. He had the stylist cover it up with makeup and insisted on opening the banquet hall. "The invitations have already gone out, so we can't let everyone laugh at us." By the time Natalie reached the hotel, plenty of guests were already seated. Ryan approached her, adjusting his cuffs. "Natalie, I know you've been upset lately. After the ceremony, we'll go find Leon together. If we all talk to him, I'm sure he'll come home." Natalie looked at the suit. The red wine stains along the bottom had been cleaned off, and the missing buttons had been replaced. But she still remembered me asking her how I looked when I first tried it on. She had been busy replying to work messages and said absent-mindedly, "They're all the same." Now she understood that they were not. With someone else wearing the suit, the ceremony could never be the same. "The ceremony
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