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When he went back inside the store, he threw his back card toward Taylor and got ready to leave. Taylor, who
was not willing to see him go, tried to persuade him to stay.
However, Matt no longer listened to her words anymore. When he responded to her questioning, he just firmly said, “Fiona isn’t the kind of person you claim she is. Something must have happened to her. It’s my fault. I didn’t notice anything was wrong with her for two whole days….
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“I can’t stay with you today. Fiona is still missing and I have to find her,” he added.
Behind him, Taylor’s face was filled with resentment. However, she could do nothing except watch him walk
away.
Meanwhile, Matt’s secretary was in the security room of our residential complex. He was surveillance footage from the past two days.
The footage revealed that I had left the house a long time ago. I also brought along a suitcase.
When the video was sent to Matt, he could no longer sit still. He knew I did not have any friends or family and the only contacts on my mobile phone were him and a few colleagues at the office. Now that I had disappeared, there wasn’t a single person he could turn to for answers.
He skipped an important company meeting and rushed to the police station to file a missing person report. However, the officers told him that not enough time had passed for them to intervene.
When he returned to our home, the place that once felt warm and cozy had now felt desolate and empty. I had
burned everything that I had to ashes two days ago.
Matt sat on the sofa and lit the cigarettes one after another as he waited in vain for a whole day. His mind was
flooded with memories of our lives in the past five years.
When I helped him out to pick up his suit. When I organized his documents. The scene when I cooled dinner for him. The small and insignificant moments hit him like a tidal wave and they were tearing apart his composure. He
could not sit still anymore.
So, he stood and paced around the house only to find the divorce agreement that I left on the table. The section detailing the division of assets was crossed out entirely. Only a bold sentence remained. “Leaving With Nothing“.
These words stung his eyes and also his heart and for the first time, Matt realized what he had lost.
However, it was just too late. By the time he read that, I had already arrived in another country.
When the plane landed, the first thing I did was find a place to stay. Armed with new documents and identity, I was ready to start a new life.
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This country was sparsely populated. The streets were also empty. Yet somehow, I felt at peace.
After we got married, I told him more than once that I wanted to visit this place. However, Matt always came up
with excuses to say no.
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The first year, he claimed he was too busy, as the company was in its growth phase.
The second year, he said the annual conference required his presence as CEO.
In the third year, he said Taylor was sick and she needed his help to find international specialists.
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Eventually, I stopped asking and this place became a distant memory in his mind. Now that I had left him, I finally had time to stay here for a long time.
Using the last of my funds, I paid the rent for my new apartment. After I cleaned up the house, I got ready to go out and look for a job.
However, my phone kept buzzing with news from my home country.
I finally clicked one of them and took a look.
The headlines were all about a dispute between the O’Donnell Group and Harris Group.
After The Love Had Dead and Gone. You’d Never See Me Again
The articles claimed that the Harris Group CEO had gone back on his word and changed his mind. He even backed out from the promised contracts at the last minute. Even the shares that were originally intended for Taylor were put on hold.
No one would turn down money, especially not Taylor, whose so–called Matt’s old friend for so many years. For her, if the amount was right, there was no loyalty.
Her face even appeared in the comment section and with the recent gossip about her and Matt being seen at the hospital, the netizen speculated that this was just an emotional dispute.
Some said that Matt had fallen out of love. After all, as a wealthy CEO, he would never lack of women. Others claimed the reason Taylor approached him was because she was trying to get his
