I Slept with My Boss and Ran Away

Upon hearing the news that Ruby was about to jump off the building, Meredith was shocked and immediately rushed to the rooftop. Indeed, there was Ruby, dressed in a white gown, sitting on the edge of the rooftop, incessantly tossing flyers below and loudly proclaiming through a megaphone, “Come and see, witness the vile face of the Chaucer family! Their daughter ran over my parents with her car, and Bianca Chaucer paid off my family to silence us…”

“That family is the devil; they are murderers,” Ruby shouted frenziedly, her eyes filled with profound hatred. Each word from her mouth struck fear into everyone’s heart.

The crowd below murmured among themselves. With Ruby’s emotions running high, even the firefighters couldn’t persuade her to come down, nor did they dare to startle her with their words.

The wind was strong on the rooftop. Bianca, supported by her secretary, also made her way up. “Ruby, don’t do this. You’re still young, we can sit down and talk everything through,” she pleaded.

At Bianca’s words, Ruby’s lips curled into a cold sneer. She stood up, teetering dangerously on the edge of the rooftop. The sight sent shivers down everyone’s spine, and the onlookers held their breath in fear.

Meredith’s heart was in her throat. She didn’t dare to shout loudly at Ruby, fearing any loud noise might startle her into a fatal misstep. Falling from such a height meant certain death.

Ruby, slender and frail-looking, seemed as if she might be blown off the edge by the slightest wind. Meredith, who was slightly acrophobic, felt dizzy just looking down from the high rooftop.

Ruby picked up the megaphone, her face a mix of despair and mockery as the wind tousled her hair, obscuring her features. “Mrs. Chaucer, how do you plan to solve our issues now? Like before, with money? And then send thugs to take it back, accusing us of extortion?” Ruby’s eyes were thick with hate. “You are an accomplice to murder. Seven years ago, your daughter killed my mother, and my father was left disabled, bedridden. Just a few days ago, my father also died. Two lives, Mrs. Chaucer, how much money do you plan to pay this time? Can you even afford it? I wanted your daughter to pay with her life, but sadly, she survived. It’s so unfair.”

Ruby’s emotions escalated, and her last words were almost a roar.

Hearing this, Meredith realized why Ruby knew so much about Joy Chaucer’s past and why Ruby had rushed out after a phone call days earlier, returning like a zombie. Her last relative had died, the very belief that had kept her alive vanished in an instant.NôvelDrama.Org (C) content.

Over the past seven years, Ruby had painstakingly worked her way into Falconer Holdings. But why? For revenge?

“Was it you who tampered with my daughter’s brakes?” Bianca gasped in surprise.

“Yes, I wanted Joy Chaucer to die, to pay for my parents’ lives. Both my parents are dead; how can she still live? She’s a murderer. Why is Joy Chaucer so arrogant? Because she has a rich mother. Murderers should pay with their lives,” Ruby said fiercely.

Meredith remembered the smell of gasoline she had noticed on Ruby earlier. It was Ruby who had tampered with Joy Chaucer’s car brakes.

The crowd was stunned, not expecting such deep-seated hatred between Ruby and the Chaucer family.

Seeing the situation deteriorate, Bianca tried to calm things down. “Ruby, I never had anyone accuse you of extortion. There must be some misunderstanding. Please come down; I will make things right. I’m truly sorry; I failed to raise my daughter properly, and it has caused your family so much pain.”

“I will never trust you again,” Ruby said, her eyes filled with hatred and sorrow. “You rich people think you can buy lives with money. To you, our lives are worthless. Today, I want everyone to see the true faces of you and your daughter, to see how ugly and disgusting you are.”

With that, Ruby shouted into the megaphone and flung the flyers into the air, “Everyone, look! Joy Chaucer ran over my parents when she was 18, and her mother helped her escape justice.”

In a dramatic motion, Ruby lost her balance. Her foot slipped…

The onlookers gasped, closing their eyes in horror.

Bianca, startled, screamed, “Ruby.”