“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.

of you took it?” His fierce glare

were shaking under

do it. Anna is the

by one and mumbled

“Really?”

hardened as he

really didn’t do it,

from how their voices trailed

then I’ll find it

seeing Michael standing up for me, but I could not dismiss the bugging thought of my colleagues

gestured at his secretary to

be here anytime soon. They would definitely want to see the design during the meeting. It would be too late for

take long before the secretary located

of the women saw the secretary retrieving the document from her drawer, her face turned

or

document from his

be the main culprit could not even

the silence? You

 

face slowly faded as the

was known for its strict discipline toward

pull Anna’s

audacity to say it was all

know you did this to me because you dislike me. You clearly knew I need this document for the meeting later, but you hid it deliberately. I

spoke my mind. Initially, I wanted to just let bygone be bygone and forget what happened yesterday, but what they did today was just

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