“Wow, you look spicy today. What’s the big event?”
The elevator doors slide shut as Mariella fawns, her eyes wide as she eyes me from head to toe.
Dressed in a blue long sleeved office shirt and a pair of tight fitting black pants paired with kitten heels, I feel like a 1990s office siren. I just need a pair of rectangular eyeglasses to complete the look.
My hands smooth down the sides of my pants as I answer reluctantly, “Oh it’s nothing. Just sitting in at a board meeting with Neal…I mean Mr Ward.”
My brunette colleague throws her head back and heaves a blissful sigh, “I can’t believe my days of sitting in at dreadful meetings are over.” She gives me an apologetic smile, “Don’t worry. You only have to be there for a million hours fighting the urge to take a nap.”
I try to scowl at h
