"I am just talking about your lack of experience in the business world. Why are you lashing at yourself that way?" Cody said with exasperation. He couldn't understand her perspective at all. What he knows is he is just trying to ease her burden as business is not among her natural interests.
She, on the other hand, was irritated at how he seems to indulge her, making her feel worthless. She was so used to fending for herself. To her, even if business is a strange world, she's up for that challenge.
"Yes, business is new to me because the rest of my family took care of everything while I taught at the university. Look, Cody, I apologize."
"Don't... You did nothing wrong."
"All of you keep saying that I have not done anything wrong! But none of you would even give me a chance to help out where it matters! You're all just indirectly saying, I suck at this! And you're right!!! I couldn't never pull this off... I'm nothing more than a useless broken shoe..." and with that, she dashed out of the office, straight into the elevator before Cody could respond.
He tried to go after her but the elevator was already descending when he arrived. By the time he reached the parking area, Shihiro was already driving to the exit.
He called his PA, Allen to attend the remaining meetings for the day and followed the car boarded by his wife. He saw that they were heading straight for home so he began to rehearse what to say to her when he gets there.
However, she locked herself in her private study. In there, she looked back to the things that happened in her life. From her studies, to her first marriage, to Meg's birth, to the eventual dissolution of the marriage, to being single again, married again and now, on the way to singleness again.
Until now, she could not fully understand what went wrong in her first marriage. She could not pinpoint where the rift started. She just knows that she wasn't enough to keep the marriage working. She just isn't worthy to become someone's wife. She deserves to be alone. She doesn't deserve to be with anyone.
As she nursed her pains, the man outside the door was tearing the house upside down looking for the keys to the study. At first, he let her be and waited in their room. However, after two hours, he started getting impatient.
Nate and Hiro, George's cousins, both advised him to stand down and just give her room. He conceded, but, when the third hour has passed, he panicked.
Her study is secured and only her prints could open it. But Cody also knows that for everything electronic, there would always be a manual override.
Her cousins were not willing to help him, though. He had to break his head to find a way to open the study. Eventually, he succeeded and found her moping when he entered.