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Chapter 19: The Respond

Penulis: Dessy Ana
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-04-07 02:09:57

Tina's POV

I arrived at the hospital early the next morning; I was only able to sleep for four hours

I sat at my desk and read Charles's statement one more time; he had not attacked me. I had to be fair about that, but fairness only goes so far when silence does the same damage as an attack. He had looked at everything I had built, including Sam's foundation, the research, and sixty-two thousand children, and he described it as a philanthropic partnership requiring independent review.

That
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  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   CHAPTER 58 The Meeting That Wasn’t on the Calendar

    The email arrived at 8:47. It says; Dr. Tina,The donor advisory group will meet at ten to review the foundation’s funding position. Please attend item two. The agenda is attached.I opened my calendar; there was no meeting listed.“Did anyone tell you about this?” I asked Miriam when she came into my office.“No, I would have flagged it.” She leaned over my shoulder. “Why does it say they’re reviewing the funding position? I thought they were still considering it.”“So did I,” I repliedI opened the attachment. The agenda had four items and the second read:Outstanding concerns and conditions for continued support. I had received no document explaining the concerns.I called the secretary listed at the bottom of the email.“Is there a paper for item two?” I asked“It has already been circulated to the group,” she replied.“Not to me,” I told her“I understand, Dr. Tina, but the chair has asked us to proceed with the existing agenda.”“Then I need a copy before the meeting,” I told h

  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   CHAPTER 57 The Terms of Help

    Adrian arrived at five and found me at the meeting-room table, surrounded by printed messages from parents.The tea Miriam had brought earlier sat untouched beside them. I pushed it aside to make room for another page.“Have you found anything?” I asked.He pulled out a chair and looked through the screenshots.“Whoever started this wanted people to pass it on,” he said. “The messages are written to make parents afraid enough to share them without checking if they're true.”“That much is obvious. I need to know who started them.”He turned to the next page.“We need to work backwards, find out who received each message first, then who sent it to them,” Adrian said“And if they don't remember?” I asked“Then we look for someone who does,” he repliedI watched him study the pages. He moved through them quickly, stopping at certain messages and comparing their wording with the others.“Start with the smaller group,” he said. “The message appeared there before it reached the larger one.”

  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   CHAPTER 56 The Name on the Record

    I opened the scan again.It says approved by: Charles Wesley.My name sat beneath the transfer details, beside the date and reference number. I read it several times, hoping something in the surrounding information would bring the decision back to me.Nothing did.By then, I had been at Wesley Corp for several years. I was no longer the junior employee who followed my father into meetings and tried to understand how the company worked. My responsibilities had grown. I handled documents, attended meetings, and made decisions without asking my father to check every one.I had wanted that trust. I had wanted to prove I could do the job.Now I was looking at a record that suggested I had approved the transfer of a report, and I couldn't remember doing it.I enlarged the signature. The slant looked familiar. So did the way the last letters joined. I found another document from the same period and placed the two signatures side by side.They looked alike.I couldn't use that as proof of wha

  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   CHAPTER 55: What Charles Found

    I returned to the files I'd been investigating for weeks after speaking to Diana.The first families I'd looked into had all been affected by business decisions made years earlier. Some had lost their companies. Others had spent years trying to recover from losses they never fully understood. Diana's father had been one of them.I'd started looking into these cases because I needed to understand what my family had been involved in. I hadn't expected the investigation to make me feel any better.Since then, the records had led me to other companies, other partnerships, and names that kept turning up where they shouldn't have.Now I needed to find out whether those connections meant anything.At 8:20, I called my investigator.“Have you found the original agreements for those companies we discussed?”“I found two of them; the third is proving difficult. Some of the records were filed under different project references.”“Keep looking; I want to know what each company shared, who received

  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   CHAPTER 54: A Promise I Couldn’t Keep

    Mrs. Thomas called at eight fifteen. I was on my way into the hospital when Miriam transferred the call to my phone.“Dr. Tina,” Mrs. Thomas said, “I’ve made a decision” she saidI stopped walking.“All right. Tell me what you need.”“I want to move Gloria’s care,” she continued“Have you spoken to another doctor?” I asked“Yes, my sister knows someone at a different centre, and they’ve agreed to review her records.”I looked down at my desk for a moment, then back at her.“I understand why you want another opinion, Mrs. Thomas, but I also want you to know that Gloria's care hasn't changed. We’re still committed to making sure she receives the attention she needs, and I’m willing to go through any questions you have with you. If there's something that's worrying you, I don't want you to feel you have to leave to get answers.”She was quiet. I continued, “If you're willing to give us a little more time, I'd appreciate the chance to address your concerns. But I don't want you to feel p

  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   CHAPTER 53 - The Name Missing From the File

    The hospital’s records team sent the first update just after two; I opened it with Adrian standing beside my desk.They had completed an initial review of the information request and were preparing a full record of the correspondence. They confirmed again that identifiable patient records had not been released.The second paragraph caught my attention: the request had been handled under a research-related reference number, but the records team had found a link to another item in the hospital’s system. They were checking whether it belonged to the same matter.I read the paragraph aloud while Adrian leaned closer to the screen.“What other item?” he asked “They haven’t said yet,” I replied to him“Can we call them?” he asked further“I’ll ask,” I told himI replied immediately, requesting the reference number, the date the item was created, and confirmation of whether it contained any additional requests or replies.The response came twenty minutes later: the records team had located

  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   Chapter 4: Three Years Later

    Charles PovWhen Charles woke up that morning, he felt the house was unusually quiet. He called for his wife, "Tina?" but there was no response, and irritation was already creeping into his voice. He walked downstairs; the dining table was set as usual, and a single envelope was placed neatly besid

  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   Chapter 3: The Last Performance

    For the next couple of days I carried on with my life; some days the grief was loud and violent, and other days I was able to hide it behind a smile. I learned quickly how to move on with myself.When Charles returned home three days after Sam’s funeral, I greeted him at the door like nothing had c

  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   Chapter Two: The Beautiful Lie

    Someone had closed Sam’s eyes; his lashes were still damp when the nurse covered his small body with the white sheet.I sat beside Sam’s empty bed long after the doctors left. No tears came; it was as if my body had forgotten how to cry.My phone vibrated in my hand; it was CharlesI stared at his

  • Too late, I am no longer your wife   Chapter One: The Gilded Cage

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