I didn't want to believe I had just lost my job, didn't want to accept my aspirations had been drawn to an end so abruptly, snatched from me so easily.

I was in denial, and I knew it.

I waited, waited for the CEO to contact me and tell me everything was just a ruse to provoke me into submissions.

I waited and waited.

But the call never came.

I had also tried to reach him through the number he saved on my phone, but it never worked. I gave up on the twentieth attempt.

Four days passed, ...