11/30/2025
I came home to find my husband throwing my clothes into the yard. “You’re fired!” he shouted. “Now you’re just a leech! Get out of my house!” I didn’t pick up a thing. I just took out my phone and made a single call. “I’ll take the position,” I said calmly. “But only on one condition—fire Robert.” Thirty minutes later, a black luxury car pulled up. The chairman’s secretary stepped out, walked straight to me, and bowed. “The chairman agrees to your terms, ma’am. Please come sign your contract.” My husband froze...
My husband, Robert, walked into the master bedroom, not with the usual weariness, but with a vibrant, terrible energy. He saw me on the floor, surrounded by my work clothes, and he smiled. It was not a kind smile. It was a smile of pure, unadulterated victory.
"So, it's true," he said, his voice dripping with mock sympathy.
I stood up. "What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about you being fired!" he barked, the joy finally breaking through. "You've been 'at home' all day. You're cleaning out your closet. You thought you were so much smarter than me, didn't you? Making more money. Well, look at you now."
I was speechless. Not because he was wrong, but because of the sheer, gleeful hatred in his eyes. He had been waiting for this. He had been praying for me to fail.
"Robert, you don't understand..."
"Oh, I understand perfectly!" he shouted, marching into the closet. He grabbed my expensive suits—the "Keep" pile—and began stuffing them violently into my suitcase.
"What are you doing?!"
"I'm taking out the trash!" He zipped the suitcase and threw it toward the hallway. "You've been a freeloader in this house long enough, coasting on my hard work!"
"Robert, this is my house!" I screamed. "I paid for this house with my signing bonus!"
"OUR house!" he roared. "And the man of the house says the freeloader has to go! You're unemployed, Anna! You have no value! You're nothing!"
He grabbed my bags, marched down the stairs, and I heard the front door open and the thud of my life hitting the front lawn.
"I'm done supporting a failure!" he bellowed up the stairs. "You're pathetic!"
I stood at the top of the stairs, my heart not broken, but frozen. The strategist in me finally, fully, took over. The wife was gone.
He had just made the worst trade of his life.
I walked slowly down the stairs. Robert was standing by the open door, flushed with triumph. "What's the matter, Anna?" he taunted. "Nowhere to go?"
I didn't look at him. I just pulled out my phone.
He laughed. A short, ugly bark. "Who are you calling? Your mommy? Or maybe your old boss, begging for your job back? They won't take you, Anna. You're finished."
I dialed a number I had memorized.
"Hello, Helen," I said, my voice perfectly calm.
Robert's smirk faltered. He knew that name. Helen was the Chairman's executive assistant. "Helen? Our Helen? What... why are you calling her?"
I held up one finger to silence him, my eyes locked on his.
"Helen, listen," I continued, "I'm just preparing for my start date next week, but it appears I have to make a last-minute change to my employment contract. It's a new stipulation."
Robert was frozen. The blood drained from his face. "Contract? What contract, Anna? What are you talking about?"
"Yes, I'll need to speak to the Chairman directly," I said, ignoring my husband's frantic whispers. "It's... a personnel issue."
"Anna, stop it!" Robert hissed, grabbing my arm.
I pulled my arm free, my gaze like ice. "He's on? Wonderful."
My voice shifted. "Mr. Chairman. Hello... we have a small, immediate problem regarding the 'work environment' you promised me," I said. "It seems the rot is a bit more personal than we discussed."
Robert looked like he was going to be sick. "Anna, please," he whimpered. The bully was gone.
"I'm looking at the problem right now, actually," I said into the phone. "Specifically, with your Head of Sales."
"Anna, don't do this!" he begged, tears welling in his eyes. "I didn't mean it! I'm sorry!"
"I am still willing to accept the position," I said, my voice void of all emotion. "But... I have one new, non-negotiable requirement."
I held my husband's terrified, pleading gaze. He knew what was coming.
"You have to fire Robert," I said, my voice a de.adly whisper. "Not tomorrow. Not at the end of the day. Now. While I'm on the phone." Watch: [in comment] - Made with AI