Tina spoke again, "Oh, and there was another thing. Some girl at the company, Lena or something. Heard she tried climbing up the ladder by stealing the assistant position. They dragged her to business dinners on day one. She drank herself into the hospital. After that, Sean kept making things difficult for her every day."
She shook her head. "Eventually, she started sleeping with a colleague. Sean caught them. Richard got furious and fired her."
I stayed silent.
Lena got fired. I couldn't say I was happy. But I couldn't really pity her either.
She thought she was fighting for a lucky break. What she actually grabbed was a life balanced on the edge of a knife.
Tina studied me for a moment. "You know her?"
I shook my head. "Just sounds like an old story."
She didn't call me out on the
