99 Calls Backfire

Synopsis

Richard Lane stood at the entrance, hand outstretched, asking for my ring. I froze for a moment. That ring – the one I’d bought with my first bonus three years ago, a matching pair for us both.I slid it off and placed it in his palm. Three years. “When the company stabilises,” he’d said, at least twenty times. I stood there, staring at my bare ring finger.