“Anna Garcia! Is this how you talk to me?”

Harry was exasperated when I shouted at him.

“But that’s the truth!” I retaliated.

 

I looked at him in the eyes without backing down. I did not care if he was the supervisor.

“Do you know I can sack you right this second?”

 

Harry hurled threats at me because he felt humiliated when I yelled at him in front of everybody.

“And do y’all know I can fire all of you?” Michael’s voice came from behind all of a sudden. “What’s with all the ruckus early in the morning?”

Michael’s voice was cold and raspy.

Everyone looked away as he swept his gaze across the office. The women fell into silence and even the supervisor straightened his back.

I turned and looked at him with my eyes red.

“What happened?”

Michael turned toward me and asked without betraying any emotion in his voice.

I told him everything from the very beginning.

Michael’s eyes were burning with anger when I was done telling my story.

fierce glare sank through them as he interrogated

under Michael’s harsh

didn’t do it. Anna is the one who’s trying to set us

one by one and mumbled the

“Really?”

as he scrutinized

do it, Mr.

were lying from how their voices trailed

then I’ll find it

for me, but I could not dismiss the

his secretary to start

was lost. The people from Benyx Corporation would be here anytime soon. They would definitely want to see the design during the meeting. It would be too late for me to start penning it all over

my fists as the search continued. It did not take long before the secretary located it in

of the women saw the secretary retrieving the document from her drawer, her face turned pale. Even her cronies started quivering in

you, or is it not

took the document from

the main culprit could not even bring herself to look at

the silence? You were so articulate

 

slowly faded as the rage in

known for its strict discipline toward employees,

to pull Anna’s leg.

the audacity to say it was all just for

you dislike me. You clearly knew I need this document for the meeting later, but you hid it deliberately. I don’t see

just let bygone be bygone and forget what happened yesterday, but what they did

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