She was still on the call when the doorknob abruptly turned, and when the door did not open, the person on the other side started to angrily bang against the door. Rose was startled and quickly hung up the call, hiding the phone underneath the pillow on the bed. She hurried to the door to unlock it and Lola marched into the room, bumping her shoulder against Rose’s. “You had one thing to do, and that was to have Hans sign that contract! But you had to go ahead and attack him, didn’t you? He was so ‘handsome’ that you had to sleep with him!” Lola yelled at Rose as she walked to the center of the room. A cocktail of anger and confusion stirred in Rose’s chest. “I tried to sleep with him? You don’t know the full story at all yet you come here trying to make unfounded accusations!” Rose

