You quickly rise up the ranks.

As the months flew by, promotion followed promotion. Each new role brought greater responsibility and higher stakes, with difficult decisions, late nights, and constant scrutiny becoming part of your daily life. Eventually, you gained a promotion to the company headquarters based in another state, and you decided that it was finally time to leave your wife. After all, she was nothing but dead weight, nothing but a ghost of your past life. You left it all behind - your wife, the home, your friends - and moved towards a future with limitless possibilities.

Rivals questioned your rapid rise, convinced luck had carried you this far, but you answered every doubt with results, leading ambitious projects that transformed the company. But you never had any doubts, not with Gemma leading the way. And so it was, on the final day of your first year in the city, you entered the boardroom expecting another high-pressure performance review, but instead received the news that the board had unanimously appointed you to be the company's next Chief Executive Officer.

Champagne and congratulations ensued, but there was only one person you wanted to celebrate with, waiting for you patiently back at your office.