only if I stopped getting paid?
My eyes filled with tears.
“I thought you were a different kind of man.”
Richard opened his mouth, but I stopped him.
“No. Please. Don’t say anything.”
“Emily…” The continuation read in the comments 
“I gave you seven years. If you wanted to fire me, you could have just fired me. You didn’t need to give me a condition like this.”
I turned away. He called after me.
“Come to the office tomorrow at ten.”
I did not turn around.
“I won’t.”
I went home crying that day.
I only told my mother that I had lost my job.
My phone rang three times in the middle of the night.
It was Richard.
I did not answer.
At nine the next morning, someone knocked on my door.
It was the company lawyer, Mr. Wilson.
“You need to come to the office.”
“If Mr. Bennett
