The Set-Up​

Summary

The day my colleague was assaulted in the conference room, I burst in and saved her. I even told her to call the cops.

But the next day, she turned on me, accusing me of being the attacker and claiming I’d coerced her into silence.

The company fired me on the spot. My wife divorced me. Friends ghosted me, and family looked the other way.

Even though I was eventually released due to lack of evidence, I was already a social pariah, a monster in the eyes of the world.

A month later, I saw her in the park, wrapped in the arms of her real attacker.