Dear Time0

I have read your story with mounting empathy. What a terrible thing to have happened, being betrayed and set up by your best friend.

You were probably too helpful to her all along. It doesn't sound as if she was ever helpful to you. She was envious and jealous of the way you can get along with people.

I hope she was dismissed from her job for her inexcusable lies. Now you have lost your promotion and the manager has lost you, a trusted employee.

Isn't there any way you can get compensation for the loss of your employment and related stress? I would investigate that line of thought.

We have something called Victim Support in the UK.

I hope you don't just drop this - please take it further; you should not walk away empty-handed.

Best wishes, FG