The email arrived on Ivy's desk on a Monday morning, official and cold, nothing like the warm words she'd grown used to from the people around her over the past few weeks.
Effective immediately, Ivy Monroe is reassigned from the Strategy Division to the Regional Operations office, located in the downtown annex building. This transfer has been approved by senior leadership.
Ivy read it twice, her stomach sinking with each word. The regional annex was a satellite office, smaller, far less prestigious, mostly used for administrative work that had nothing to do with the kind of strategy work she'd spent the last month proving herself capable of. It wasn't a promotion. It was a message, dressed up in polite corporate language.
She found Ronan within minutes, the printed email clutched in her
