The Employee [PROLOGUE]

PROLOGUE

"You're fired!"

My jaw dropped at the break of those words, eyes gaping on at the hot liquid streaming down the shirt of the man who in minutes ago, had been my employer.

I had spilled coffee on him.

Hot coffee!

What luck befell a lady as me on a fine Monday morning?

But I tell you people, it was the end of a path I had taken for the past eight years, and the beginning of my search for a job.

Sometimes, one would think life would hit you with warning. Get you prepared for what was to come. Have you anticipate whatever was out there.

But no, not this time.

It struck me hard. Leaving me with nothing, but the fact that all my years of working here, had been an utter waste.

Years of me toiling to have a better stand.

My things had been tossed out my office in less than a minute.

Come on, now.

I knew Corrine never liked me, but was this how fast she was at getting rid of me?

She had slipped the letter into my sweaty palms, eyes registering the shock on my face.

That let