Chapter 17

"I hope she and that jerk have a long and lousy life together!"

That day, Zara packed up her things at the office and brought everything home. It caused quite the scene. It could not be hidden from her roommate, Cecil.

Under Cecil's relentless probing, Zara spilled the beans about everything that had gone down.

Cecil went on a rant, blasting Yosef and Beatrice for a solid 30 minutes. The more she ranted, the angrier she got. Finally, she slammed down a bottle of cold beer in frustration.

She spun around to Zara and asked, "So you just quit, just like that?"

Zara, who was rubbing ointment on her injured leg, replied without much fuss, "Didn’t you always want me to dump Yosef? Now that I've quit, you think I'm being rash?"

"Rash? Heck no! I'm thrilled you're out of there! It's just that those two got off way too easy!"

After her tirade, Cecil bit her lip and asked in an unpleasant tone, "So what did that jerk Yosef do when you told him you were quitting?"

"I told him I was done