I Walked Away Seven Years Too Late But Right on Time novel Chapter 205

"Victoria!" Harold's voice boomed from behind.

He had stepped away to speak with their lawyer for just a moment, only to turn around and find his wife missing. He rushed out just in time to witness the scene.

He hurried over to pull Victoria away, waving apologetically at Gavin, gesturing for him to take Sarah and Sophie and leave.

"Did you hear how heartbroken your daughter was crying in that courtroom? Doesn't your heart ache at all, Harold? She was screaming for you, begging you to save her, and yet the day before her trial, you went running to that woman!"

"Let's just go home," Harold muttered through gritted teeth, grabbing Victoria by the arm and dragging her aside.

Gavin had already opened the car doors for Sarah and Sophie. They had no interest in watching the melodramatic spectacle unfold.

"I'm not leaving!" Victoria struggled to shake off Harold's grip. Seeing Sarah get into the car, she shrieked, "Don't you dare leave! My daughter's life is ruined because of you, and now you want to ruin my marriage—"

"Do you really want to make a public laughingstock of us?" Harold clapped a hand over her mouth, his voice a furious whisper.

He signaled his driver to bring the car around and forcefully shoved Victoria into the back seat.

"A laughingstock? I'm already a joke! Our daughter hasn't even been sentenced yet, and you've already moved out. Couldn't wait, could you? You want to be with her. Did you even think about our daughter? Did you think about me? It was her daughter who ruined Eileen! How could you... how could you?"

Victoria pummeled his chest as she sobbed.

"If you keep acting like a lunatic, whether I move out or not, you'll drive me insane eventually."

Harold pinned her wrists down, his eyes filled with sheer disgust. He couldn't survive another day of this.

Shortly after Luke's family moved out, their house was put on the market. When Arthur and Eleanor returned to handle the paperwork, they didn't even bother contacting Harold or Victoria.

The message was crystal clear: their two decades of friendship were completely dead.

Arthur had been the company's CFO for twenty years—essentially the backbone of their finances. The new CFO couldn't command the room, leading to massive internal strife within the finance department.

Arthur's resignation sparked rumors that Harold was purging the veteran staff, and getting rid of Arthur was just the first step in a corporate bloodbath. Panic had spread like wildfire through the office.

Add to that Eileen's scandal—though they tried to keep it quiet, secrets of that magnitude always leaked. The entire company knew by now.

Employees were questioning the company's future, forcing Harold to spend most of his days doing damage control and pacifying his staff.

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