A Seat at the Table

Avery

I froze, my hand tightening around my water bottle. The voice belonged to Victoria Haines from Marketing. I'd only interacted with her a handful of times, but she'd always struck me as the office gossip.

"I heard Mr. Pierce's been calling her into his office after hours for weeks now," another voice added, Brooke Lawson from Accounting.

"God, can you imagine? A real estate project in Manhatt