---- He promised to visit Mom some other day. He agreed to get married only to end up asking to postpone the marriage to some other day. Thad always been tolerant of him, but he only ended up hurting my feelings more and more. From now on, though, I was no longer going to give him the chance to say ''some other day". After all, Mom won't be able to meet him "some other day" anymore, so he was never going to get the chance to say that to me anymore either. I continued to stay by Mom's cold corpse in the hospital that night and didn't return home. Hayden kept sending me text messages all night long, and there were countless missed calls on my phone, but I ignored him completely. Early the next morning, I went to the company to ---- write up my resignation letter. Hayden had founded the company, and I was just some no-name designer working there. I encouraged him to establish the company back when he didn't have a single penny to his name, and I stayed by his side the entire time. However, now that the company was flourishing, I was no longer useful and had become practically invisible. Even if I were to leave one day, Hayden wouldn't realize that anything was off. As I was standing next to the printer, he suddenly appeared and tapped me on the shoulder. At that moment, I was holding the resignation letter in my hand with an impassive expression. "Are you done photocopying documents?" he asked gently. ---- "Yes," I replied simply. Hayden didn't seem to notice my cold expression, which was so different from my usual attitude. He cleared his throat and said, ''Please drop by my office, Lucy." As I turned to walk toward Hayden's office, whispers from my colleagues reached my ears. "T heard that Hayden is already a family man." "That's what I thought! It's no wonder that Lucy and Hayden are dating behind everyone's backs and being evasive about their relationship. It turns out they're having an affair." "Lucy even used to swear that she hated women who interfered with others' relationships. What a hypocrite." My parents' happy marriage had been ruined bya mistress, which resulted in my mom and me being abandoned and having to suffer lives filled with ---- hardship. And now, because of Hayden, I had actually been painted as the mistress getting in the way of someone else's relationship. Just then, Hayden stood from his swivel chair and pulled me into his arms. "We haven't made out here in such a long time, babe."