(Aurora's POV)
I got to the office at ten.
The internal announcement system notification was already sitting at the top of my screen when I opened my laptop - a formal statement, precisely worded, the kind of language that leaves no room for interpretation. I read it twice.
*Serena Everett, effective immediately, has been terminated for serious violations of workplace conduct standards.*
I sat back in my chair.
The lab was quiet around me. Sylvia hadn't come in yet, and the only sound was the low hum of the incubation units along the far wall. I looked at the notification again, at the clean, impersonal formatting of it, the way the words arranged themselves into something that felt almost surgical.
I'd already suspected Serena was involved in what happened last night. She was the on
