My chest dropped. My body stiffened as I stood frozen in the elevator.
Reading the text all over again, hoping the lack of sleep and coffee must have been messing with my head. But no matter how many times I read it over, the words remained unchanged.
I'd been fired.
"Ma'am." A faint hum slipped through my haze as my grip tightened on the phone. The bright lights pierced like a hundred suns as beads of sweat gathered on my forehead.
How?
How was she able to do this? How could she do this to me?
I had done absolutely nothing to her to deserve all the hate she'd been pouring on me.
I thought I'd prepared my defense against her and GoldenCub, but I never would have thought I'd be taking a strike from Sterling Crest instead.
How was that possible? Without Dane's knowledge.
She had thr
