Nora

The weekend team-building retreat—sorry, it was no more a weekend because Liam extended the date, I don’t know why, but it was greatly pissing me off. Well, as I was about to say, the weekend team-building retreat had been Liam's idea, and he made it abundantly clear from the moment we arrived that he believed his plan was foolproof. We stood at the entrance of a sprawling, rustic lodge, surrounded by towering pine trees and the promise of two days—sorry, I always forget this, two-day retreat had turned into five days of intense team bonding.

Here's what happened on the first day.

"It's simple, Nora," he explained, his tone...