Uninvited Company

GENEVIEVE'S POV

The bass vibrated straight through the floorboards, rattling the ice inside the plastic tumblers on our low table. Corporate parties always made my chest feel tight. The noise, the heavy cologne, and the forced laughter of people trying to impress their supervisors grated on my nerves. Squeezed into the back of a plush velvet banquette, I watched the strobe lights cut across the c