Chapter 42

She trudged to her cubicle, firing up her email with the usual lack of enthusiasm, but as the name atop the message loaded on her screen, the color drained from Lucinda’s face, leaving her ashen.

Around her, the complexions of her colleagues went through a spectrum of hues,

eventually settling on a collective look of pensive dread, all eyes flickering toward the director’s office door.

Lucinda felt as if her strength had left her body. She slumped into her chair, powerless.

A colleague approached, placing a sympathetic hand on her shoulder, “Ms. Lucinda, didn’t Ms. Haywood just mention the proposal?”

Now, no one dared to call out Brielle’s name in casual familiarity; it had to be the respectful ‘Ms. Haywood.”

Snapping back to reality, Lucinda quickly retrieved the proposal. The feeling in her gut was. akin to swallowing a fly-disgusting, unbearable, and impossible to ignore.

Lucinda was acutely aware of the pitying glances. thrown her way. Her face was pale, her fingertips clutching the proposal with white-knuckled intensity. After a few seconds of hesitation, she pushed open

Her hair was pulled up. with

surge of envy flashed through Lucinda’s eyes. Why did this

Haywood, here is

mug on her desk-another one of Lucinda’s tasks. Lucinda caught

That bitch!

an outburst, Lucinda managed to pour a fresh coffee without a

didn’t verbally mock her, but her silence was cutting, making Lucinda extremely uncomfortable. Lucinda stood awkwardly, wanting to

through the proposal. It was one she

took Lucinda a while, but she finally managed to say, “There’s an executive meeting

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office. “Ms. Lucinda, I’m not fond of this office décor. Would you

felt a tingling at the scalp, nearly passing out

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