The fall

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‎ ‎Marcus ‎ ‎Monday morning came like a storm. ‎I stood outside Bennett & Associates, my hand on the glass door, and I couldn't push it open. Victoria was next to me, wearing sunglasses even though it was cloudy. Her jaw was so tight I thought her teeth might break. ‎"We have to go in," she whispered. ‎"I know." ‎"We signed the papers, we don't have a choice." ‎I knew that. Every choice I'd made in the last eighteen months had brought me to this exact moment, standing outside my own company as a junior associate, a thief and a fool. ‎When we walked in, the office went quiet. Like the kind of quiet that felt like you were been led for an execution. ‎Sarah sat in her office—my office, the one I'd taken after she "died" and she was looking at designs with a focus that made my stoma

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