Divorce me I'm done serving you (Ayla) novel Chapter 5

"Y-yes, Mrs. Winston hasn't called me. My call can't get through to her. M-maybe she blocked me."

Clink!

Troy set down his fork, his face dark, and walked off without a word.

Laura froze.

She had gotten it all wrong. If Ayla upset Troy, he would always lose his temper.

Laura used to hope Ayla would give Troy the cold shoulder for a few days. Not anymore.

Even as an outsider, Laura could see Troy only responded to gentleness, never to pressure. Ayla must know this even better than her. She never should have tried to play hard to get with him from the start.

And now, because of this game she was playing, she made Laura's life harder.

What a pain.

When Troy got to the office, he finished the routine meeting. Not long after, his secretary knocked on his door and brought him a gift bag.

He opened it.

Inside was a plain silver ring.

Max had already mentioned Ayla sold their wedding ring and went shopping at other jewelry stores.

So that was the new trick she had up her sleeve after she went missing from his life for the last two days? Ayla would probably show up at the office with a lunchbox for him later.

Troy's brows furrowed at the thought.

He snapped the ring box shut and tossed it aside, then buried himself in work.

A moment later, he called Jed and told him coldly.

"Don't let Ayla into the office today."

He hated her games.

After hanging up, Troy threw the ring box straight into the trash.

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Monday morning. Workday.

Ayla sat at her desk on time.

When they first married, she was a full-time housewife.

At one family dinner, when Martin wasn't there, Carmen tore into her in front of everyone.

She mocked Ayla for doing nothing, eating off the family, failing to care for Troy, and worst of all-still not giving him a child. Carmen said she couldn't even hold her head up in front of friends when Ayla's name came up.

Troy had been right there. He didn't defend her. He just let his mother stab her with cruel words.

That same night, Ayla sent out her résumé.

Not to Winston Group, but to Storm Group.

Storm Group was a tech giant worth over a trillion dollars, built in just five years.

Even for a simple secretary job at Storm Group, you had to be a graduate from one of the top universities in the country.

Ayla had that covered. She graduated from Agron University with a degree in computer science, the most sought-after major at the time.

She could have gone straight into the research department. But tech jobs usually meant brutal hours, endless overtime, and staying up all night when projects got big. If she worked there, she would have no time left to take care of Troy.

So she chose a lighter role instead-an administrative position as a secretary in the president's office.

When Martin found out, he wanted her to work at the Winston Group.

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After all, at the family company, she wouldn't have to follow strict office hours, the workload would be lighter, and she would have more freedom.

But Ayla knew how much Carmen despised her. If she joined the Winston Group, Carmen would only make her life harder and accuse her of scheming for the Winstons' fortune.

At Storm Group, she didn't have to deal with any of that. Last week, when she found out she was pregnant, Ayla had already written a resignation letter. But now she wasn't planning to send it.

She needed to rewrite her thesis and keep up with industry research. Storm Group was on the cutting edge of technology, with access to resources and opportunities she couldn't find anywhere else.

And with her easy secretary job, she still had plenty of time to work on her paper.

"Ayla, how come you didn't bring your lunch today?" Her coworker leaned over curiously from the next desk. Sometimes Ayla brought a delicate homemade lunchbox to work. But every time noon came around, she would grab it and leave the office. No one ever knew who she was really bringing it to.

The lunch was something she prepared for Troy.

Whenever Troy went out drinking at business dinners, she would wake up early the next morning to make him something gentle on the stomach.

The easiest way would have been for him to carry it himself, but Troy didn't like the hassle.

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