Chapter 114: You Didn’t Show Up

It was a regular Tuesday in the office—or as “regular” as a place like Belmont & Associates could ever be. Phones shrilled like toddlers throwing tantrums, coffee fumes clung to the air like a curse, and the endless shuffle of files sounded less like productivity and more like an off-key orchestra of my pure misery. If someone bottled this chaos and sold it, it’d be labeled Corporate Hell No. 5.