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garden, carrying the sharp st

lat, cold, and utterly dead. "Did you look at the rake

sgust. "You've been unhinged ever since you walked through that door demanding half a mi

e blind, arrogant certainty

higher against my uninjured shoulder. "Enjoy your littl

you to a

sively, his hand shoo

ping sharply out of his reach. H

s face darkening with rage as his h

he system twenty minutes ago. I am no longer your employee, and by the end of this month, I won't

tarily paralyzed by the c

it for him

gainst my chest, and strode out th

n approaching Uber, pulling op

dical Center," I told t

ur veterinary emergency hospital burned my

's mangled leg and rushed him straight thr

guided me into an adj

said, cutting away the bloody remnants of my sleeve. "You ne

ghtly," I said, gritting my teeth as she poured saline over the

the gauze wrapped tightly around my

veterinary surgeon em

hind leg," the doctor said. "He's going to make a full recovery,

card,and handed it over, silent

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king app. Availabl

ed out my phone, and opened my corporate David Group inbox to

igh-priority red flags sa

nistrative Penalty Not

of the Chief Ex

ed the

ty and unauthorized abandonment of the Montreal testing facility. In accordance with executive discretion, a punitive offset of $3

red thousa

he money that was supposed to serve as the basel

ad realized

ect corporate leverage, so he was using a fraudulent administrative fine to

ntil the glass creake

ough the white gauze on my left fo

ponize my mother's life

ed arm, and pushed open the clinic doors into t

ther cab on South

told the driver, my voice stea

e the empty financial district, its glas

evolving doors into th

ight from behind the front desk, hi

rely six-thirty, and the exec

through his words with a look

p executive keycard agains

ors sliding shut, and the elevator began its si