Sweet Divorce

Rita’s line brought the bustling office into dead silence.

Everyone looked over to Jason in unison.

Jason lifted his gaze to meet Rita, fingers tapping the tabletop, as if considering something-

Tap.

Tap.

Everyone remained quiet, and the tapping against the table was especially crisp.

Rita and Jason stayed there, testing each other to see who would be the first to crumble and speak.

The room seemed quiet, but undercurrents roiled.

Especially those who’d had their eyes on the assistant general manager’s position for a long time – they really had it in for Rita now.

“The responsibility of the assistant general manager’s position is too great, Mr. Snow. I feel like it should be left to someone more capable.” Matthew spoke first, prodding Charlie with a nondescript gesture. “What do you think, Mr. Powers?”

“That’s right. Assistant general manager is an important spot. You can’t hand it over to someone with an unknown background just because they resolved one crisis for the company!”

Charlie shot a glance at Rita, then muttered to himself, “Much less a young girl like this.”

Jason ignored the two, turning to Connor Trent, who’d maintained silent throughout. “What do you think, Mr. Trent?”

“I’ll leave the decision up to you, Mr. Snow. I have no opinion on the matter.” Connor gave up his say.

Charlie glared at him. “Brownnose!”

Connor smiled, as if he hadn’t heard that.

The position had been one that Charlie and Connor were competing over. Now that Connor had given up, Charlie was obviously slated to be the one to get said position.

As his personality went, of course Charlie was feeling resentful as all heck.

He looked coldly towards Rita, leering, “Listen, girlie…”

“Rita Brown.”

Halfway into his sentence, Rita interrupted him with two words.

“W…what?” Charlie jolted.

Seriously, Rita replied, “My name, gentlemen, is Rita Brown.”

Hearing that, everyone paused for a second.

Other than a bit of disquiet flashing across Jason’s eyes, the rest of them didn’t seem to register anything. At least, they didn’t connect that name to the Brown family.

Rita didn’t have Amelia’s favor, so she’d never been let into the company.

Furthermore, none of the Brown family had ever been allowed to mention Rita’s existence in the bloodline.

So it wasn’t strange that people here didn’t know her.

“You say you solved this issue for us, but where’s the proof?” Charlie cocked an eyebrow, putting the ball in Rita’s court again.

“Yeah, this was all Mutt’s exposure piece at work, what’s it got to do with you?” Hearing that, Matthew chimed in. “Show us proof that you were responsible, and we’ll hand you that position.”

Matthew’s doubts resonated with the other managers of the company, who started talking amongst themselves.

“Mr. Powers and Mr. Gray are right, Mr. Snow. We have to have Ms. Brown prove that she did resolve this issue and it wasn’t a coincidence.” Connor spoke as well.

place pressure on her,

good people, but he’d never thought they could stoop

general manager’s position, but now they were trying to squirrel

band of

enough. He stood up for Rita. “What do you mean proof; you’re just going back on your

fiery. “Quit speculating wildly. I

“You…”

wanted to say something else, but Rita stopped him with a hand. “They’re right, their request was

jolted, looking at

lost

didn’t

rest of them thought, of course

they wouldn’t

expected everything to play

or losing her nerve, her eyes scanned across Charlie, Matthew and Connor as she said mildly, “Since I was the one who’d sold the video to Mutt, I’m not bothered by their

that, Connor laughed out loud. “You sold the video to Mutt? But Mutt is saying on social media that it was the

words, everyone else checked Mutt’s

that he’d bought the information from

everyone looked contemptuously at

round out

“Probably didn’t expect Mutt to give up his

only looked mildly

panic. “Then why don’t have ask Isabelle over, and we can talk? See what the

with the

I had someone get in contact with Isabelle the reporter.

efficient as always, Mr.

the best bet

praise on Connor, who simply remained

mild-mannered, but to Rita, he hid daggers

though he’d said that he was leaving it up to Jason, he was probably the one who least

they wanted to play it like that, she wasn’t

the silent treatment? Afraid?” Matthew glanced at her and mocked. “You can still back out if

if you leave now, you can still salvage your reputation.” Charlie looked at Rita,

have

moment, the

in

her, all smiles. “Hello, Ms. Anderson. I’m Connor Trent. I

Mr. Trent,” Isabelle

hand. “So as far as my knowledge goes, you sold the information to Mutt, which is why we have the tabloid headlines for today, and why

it went,”

that, Connor’s confidence

straight on Rita. “But this person says she was the one who

be, I dug up the info myself!” Hearing that,

temper, some of the people there

who’d had her back to Isabelle all the time, and turned her forcefully over to face Isabelle. “How would you explain it away this time,

turned, facing Isabelle with her back straight. “What… do you have something

met, and

been in the middle of saying

Boss?!

Connor froze. “!!!”

to the

Isabelle, then at Rita, still not registering the

That was some twist…

you just called her…?” Unwilling to accept it,

Isabelle took out a Starpath investor’s sheet from her pocket and handed