Hellfire's Wrath

My eyes narrowed the moment I saw the name "Janice" on the page.

Last time, Danny had pulled out the same document with the same signature on it. However, I knew I had never signed it despite the signature being an exact match with mine.

"So, the queen of the newsroom can't even admit when she's wrong?" Ruby cried almost genuinely, and our co-workers began to look at me doubtfully.

Any doubt the boss still had vanished the second she started sobbing. Everyone couldn't help wanting to side with whoever looked weaker.

"Hello. We're here to investigate the false report regarding yesterday's fire." Two officers suddenly walked toward me. I still had the video of Ruby going to the fire on my phone. Even if they tried to pin the assignment on me, she could not escape making a false report.

Ruby's face tightened with fear as Danny pointed at me and shouted, "Not only did you sign off on the assignment roster, but you also even made a false coverage on the scene?!"

In my last life, the police showing up had shaken Ruby, and Danny had stepped in, dumping everything on me. With the security camera's footage destroyed, the assignment roster with forged signatures became the evidence for sending me to prison.

Nothing I said had mattered, and I was taken away and eventually sentenced.

This time, I understood something simple. If you wanted to survive people like them, you had to be even more brutal!

I slammed my palm on the desk and simply grabbed the assignment roster, tearing it to pieces. "You can't lie outright like that, Danny! You were the one who sent her to the scene! I still have the footage on my phone, and the firemen from the fire department can back me up as witnesses as well!"

At the word "footage", Danny hesitated, but when he saw Ruby's face pale, he took a deep breath and put on that righteous expression on his face. "Janice, you might be my wife, but I side with the truth, not with you. I get that you're jealous, but there were just the three of us there. What can a video from a phone prove when you can edit it? The cameras have been down for days. Stop lying and just turn yourself in."

He lowered his head as though it hurt him, playing the good husband forced into a hard choice.

I gripped my phone tight until my knuckles turned white, anger coursing through me to the point I was shaking. Even after living through this same scenario once already, I still felt resentful when I had to do it all over again!

"When did the cameras break? Why wasn't I aware of that?" I asked.

The officers called in the employee from the security room. He glanced at me, then he looked away in guilt. My stomach dropped.

"The cameras have been down for a week." He had been on duty the entire week. With one sentence, he sealed it.

That was when I understood everything. Danny had been preparing for this for a long time.

The officers closed in immediately. "Do you understand what your false information caused? Because of the mistake, the evacuation was delayed. Even now, the firefighters are still unconscious in the hospital after the explosion!"

My coworkers stared at me like I was already guilty and proof was simply optional.

Anything I said would be useless.

I looked at every face in the room.

I had never mistreated them, but some of them had heard my fight with Danny that day. They still chose to stay quiet, pretending to be deaf instead of standing up for me.

Fine.

If that was the case, they did not get to complain about what I was going to do next!