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Richard Lane said, "Sign it. Victoria is pregnant." On the night of my birthday, Richard pushed the divorce agreement across the table. I didn't take it. Then, Richard and Victoria's wedding photo popped up in the company group chat, with Victoria's caption: [Forever starts today.] The next day at work, my desk had been emptied. I'd been arranged to work in the cleaning room. Victoria leaned against the doorframe, her nails painted blood-red. "Grace, do you like the place HR assigned you?" "Ms. Nolan, you're suspected of embezzling three million dollars from the company." When the police showed up, Richard stood at the door and didn't even spare me a glance. My mother-in-law, Mary, cornered me at the mall and slapped me. "Richard supported you for eight years. Have you ever given him a child?" My son, Ethan, yelled at me over the phone, "You old hag! Dad was right to leave you!" At the shareholders' meeting, Richard proposed to vote me out. Everyone raised their hands. Not a single person objected. What they didn't know was that I still owned 51% of the shares.