Scalding Karma

At a café, Mallory was annoyed as she went to get her coffee.

She overheard someone whispering, "I heard the leader of the venture capital department is personally mentoring Cordelia. What's her background? She hasn't been here for long. She's being promoted so often. Who is she?"

Someone else said, "It's unbelievable. Cordelia was promoted so fast, even faster than Sadie, the heiress of the Thorn