Semua Bab When I Walked Away: Bab 1 - Bab 10

When the words left my mouth, I wished I hadn’t wasted my breath on her.Back when we registered our marriage, Lucy insisted we keep it hidden from the company. She said she didn’t want the employees thinking I’d get special treatment, so she wanted our marriage kept quiet. I understood her and went along with it. However, later on, she stopped caring about discretion and openly acted intimately with Zack at work. Everyone in the company thought she and Zack were the real couple, and she didn’t bother to explain. In fact, she seemed to enjoy the misunderstanding.Even when it came to planning the wedding, she only invited business partners. She didn’t invite a single friend or relative. Her explanation at the time was that since we lived in another city, even if we announced our wedding, our friends wouldn’t be able to come. She said it would only look like we were asking for gifts, so it was better to keep things simple and quiet, and we could have a celebration back home later.

I hesitated for a moment, but I still picked up the call.Before I could say anything, I heard Lucy’s cheerful voice on the other end. “Graham, I’ve got a contract here. Look it over for me and send it back as soon as you can. I need it urgently.”Before I even replied, the document landed in my inbox.I glanced at it and immediately recognized it as a project Zack had been handling. I couldn’t help but laugh. Lucy did this all the time. Whatever Zack couldn’t finish, she dumped on me. If it turned out well, the credit went to Zack. If it didn’t, then it was my incapacity.I had resisted before. Whenever that happened, she’d comfort me afterward, calling it “training,” as if she were doing me a favor. This time, though, I didn’t swallow it just to avoid making her angry like I used to.“I’m sorry,” I said calmly. “I can’t do it.”Maybe she was too used to me taking everything silently. Hence, when I actually refused, she froze for a second and then grew impatient.“It’s just rev

When she saw me, Lucy instinctively pulled her hand back. Beside her, Zack’s expression flickered with annoyance, but it passed quickly, and he recovered his usual calm, smiling as he stepped forward. “No wonder I heard from HR the other day that you were looking for Lucy. You could’ve just given her a call. Why come all the way here in person?”Hearing that, Lucy frowned, as if she suddenly realized something.“Were you following me?” she asked.“What do you mean? Don’t you trust me?” I countered, finding it funny, but didn’t bother explaining much. “I wasn’t following you. My friends and I are here for dinner.”She clearly didn’t believe me.“Cut the cr*p. Do you think I don’t know whether you have friends? If you were following me, just admit it. Why lie?”I couldn’t help but smirk.She knew me better than anyone. She knew I had left my hometown and had almost no friends, yet she had chosen to leave me alone in that city to cool off. I remembered last year, she lied about g

I made sure to show her the final page of the divorce papers. Her signature in the bottom right corner looked a little sloppy from her rushing to scribble it that day when she was worried about Zack. However, she likely didn’t even remember doing it.Sure enough, when Lucy saw it, she froze for half a second before letting out a snort.“Graham, do you know the consequences for falsifying an important document? You imitated my signature pretty well, but I don’t remember signing this,” she said, raising an eyebrow confidently.I didn’t bother explaining. Instead, I handed the papers to her. “In that case, why don’t you take a good look and check if this is actually your handwriting?”Lucy frowned, annoyed but curious. She took it, and after examining the signature carefully, her expression tensed. She probably recognized it. Her signature was unique, with small details that were nearly impossible to replicate perfectly.Her face darkened. A tense silence hung in the air for almost h

Lucy’s face went from pale to ashen. “What did you say? A shareholder?”Hugh spoke plainly, without beating around the bush. “Graham has joined our company. He’s now our second-largest shareholder.”Lucy’s face drained of color. She clearly didn’t recognize Hugh, and irritation flashed across her features.“What company are you talking about? And who are you?”Zack, standing beside her, tried to explain, “Lucy, if you recall, he is the one who runs the company we’ve won against. Most of their deals were ones we didn’t want, which is why they got them.”Hearing that, Lucy’s expression softened slightly. She sneered at Hugh. “I was wondering what kind of company it was. It turns out to be just some no-name operation that doesn’t even rank.“Graham, think it through. How much do you really think a company like theirs can afford to pay you? My company can give you more than that. In fact, I’m about to secure another major project. If this goes through, it’ll bring in over a billion i