I don’t know if that would feel nice or like rubbing salt in my wound. “I don’t know. I’ll have to get back to you.” Maybe I’ll go get my things tonight, while everyone is asleep. I know they will have already changed the passwords on my computer and made sure their client list is unavailable to me.

If I can’t trust Stuart, who can I trust?

“Well. Let me know. And I’ll help you anyway I can, Sky. You’ve been invaluable to the firm.”

Not so invaluable, I think. Even if you do a great job, work weekends and evenings to meet deadlines, you’re expendable. Even though Stuart gave me wonderful ratings on work evaluations. And accompanied that A+ rating with maximum merit salary increases. But I guess at the end of the day, I wasn’t all that important.

Now what? Another thing in my life just ended, out of the blue.

I’m walking along an abyss that threatens tragedy every day.

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