The 143rd Confession
From anticipation to confusion, from disappointment to frustration, then to simmering anger.
He must've been thinking we had agreed to go through our 144th declaration today. Why didn't I show up? Why would I humiliate him like this in front of the world?
But Aldric, hadn't I gone through that same humiliation 143 times?
Well, thank goodness, there wouldn't be a 144th time. This time, I was the one who was done.
My resignation stirred quite a storm inside Cromwell LLP.
Most of my colleagues never knew about my past with Aldric. But now, after everything that happened, the rumors have begun to swirl.