Vera's POV:

About an hour later, I was back in the office, and everything could not have been more different. It the past few hours, a lot of executives had been fired, policies had been changed, and a board meeting had turned into an interrogation that had turned the entire company upside down.

The consequences of those decisions were only beginning to show up now. The moment I had walked into the lobby after coming back from lunch, I had immediately noticed the difference.

People stared at me just like they usually do, but this time, whenever they stared at me, they did it with fear in their eyes, as...