“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.

it?” His fierce glare sank

shaking under

we didn’t do it. Anna is the

one by one and mumbled the same

“Really?”

hardened as

didn’t do

from how their

no, then I’ll find

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

his secretary to start

anxiously. I was genuinely afraid that the document 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

not take long before the secretary located it in one of the drawers of the

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

it you, or is it not

took the document from his

turned out to be the main culprit could not

the silence? You were so articulate

 

faded as the rage

for its strict discipline toward employees, so naturally, Michael

pull Anna’s leg. We

say

I 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 don’t

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

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