The next morning, I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing. I picked it up and saw that it was Filiz calling. A lump formed in my throat, so I just let it ring until the screen stopped flashing, signaling the call had ended.

Today, I had to call Erick and tell him I wouldn’t be coming back to work. I felt deeply ashamed—he had trusted me with this job, and I didn’t know how he would take the news. But it was undoubtedly worse to let Alexander destroy his company. If that happened, I’d never b