“Keep going like this and I’ll have to order you a new uniform. That one won’t fit you much longer.”
Emily said nothing.
She simply lowered her head.
I saw tears forming in her eyes.
That night, for the first time, I felt ashamed of my wife’s behavior.
But everything changed on a Tuesday night.
It was almost eleven when Emily knocked on the door of my study.
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Normally, she would have gone home hours earlier.
But that night, her face was pale.
Her hands were trembling.
She stepped inside, closed the door, and quietly said,
“Mr. George… I don’t know how to tell you this. If I’m wrong, you can fire me right now. But if you don’t listen to me now, you may not wake up tomorrow
I stood up from my chair.
“What happened?”
Emily stared at me silently for several seconds.
Then she whispered,
“I heard Mrs. Lauren talking to someone.”
“Who?”
She said a name I knew very well.
“Brian.”
My blood ran cold.
Lauren had always introduced Brian as a distant cousin. He came to our house frequently. Sometimes he helped with paperwork, and sometimes he drove Lauren somewhere.
I had never suspected anything.
Emily explained that she had been cleaning the hallway when she heard their voices coming from the room next door.
They thought she had already gone home.
Lauren had said that I still had not signed the new will.
Brian had angrily replied that she had waited far too long.
And then Lauren said a sentence I still cannot forget.
“Once everything is in my name, George won’t be a problem anymore.”
I froze.
For months, Lauren really had been constantly talking about my will.
On top of that, she had recently started organizing my heart medication herself.
Two weeks earlier, the brakes on my car had also failed.
At the time, I thought it was an accident.
After that night, I no longer did.
Emily lowered her eyes.
“Mr. George, I desperately need this job. I still haven’t saved enough money for my mother’s surgery. But if I stayed silent and something happened to you, I could never forgive myself.”
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I looked at that young woman standing in front of me.
Lauren humiliated her every day.
She mocked her weight, her clothes, and her poverty.
