Chapter 1134 A Long Road:>Ep3
- I was served while waiting in line for my turn to access the company sponsored outplacement resources. I came home to find the locks changed, my clothes boxed and in the driveway with another copy of the restraining order placed neatly on top. My severance package should have lasted for months, but I was almost immediately forced to choose. Should I use my remaining funds to fight the divorce and for custody of my daughter or to live? I chose to fight, but I was simply outmatched.
- Lawyers, psychologists, judges all came to the same conclusion. I was a mentally abusive, unfit parent. I was unemployed, and without means to care for a child. I was worthless. They said so in writing. All legal like.
- The final blow came when I had my last harebrained idea. If I could just speak to April face to face, she would listen to me. At the time, she was nine. Old enough to tell them that she loved her daddy and that she wanted to see me and that we were like peas in a pod. And so I stood in the darkness, behind the bushes, hoping to see her. Staring at what used to be my house. That was the first time I saw them together. My wife, my daughter and the company vice president of operations. He was the son of my former company's founder and a womanizer, an asshole and perhaps the worst business manager ever to hold an executive position. But his old man was respected and people were loyal and the only ruined life was mine. And I was a nobody. They had all said so.