Chapter 14
The Necklace
I did not withdraw my resignation.
From the moment HR received the forms, I began focusing on handover work.
After all, I had been at Yale Group for many years. My duties were not the kind that could be wrapped up overnight and tied neatly with a ribbon.
There were calendars to transfer.
Client preferences to explain.
Passwords to update.
Files to organise.
Old agreements to label clearly enough that no one would call me two months later asking where some forgotten clause had gone to die.
Fortunately, most of it could be handled online.
Which meant I no longer had to see Charles.
And I no longer had to make my life revolve around him.
For the first time in years, there were spaces in my day that did not belong to his meetings, his moods, his coffee, his
