The corners of Sadie Sink’s lips curled upward in open disdain, her eyes filled with barely concealed mockery as she looked across the room.
A company already wobbling on the edge of collapse like that—who in their right mind would ever want to come back?
“You’re seriously overthinking it,” she said coolly, crossing her arms. “We’re not like you.”
Another voice chimed in, sharp and dismissive. “A grown man with no ambition, wasting his days doing menial work in a company that’s barely breathing.”
“Oh, right,” someone added with a lazy laugh, “give it a few more days and you probably won’t even qualify to be a janitor anymore.”
The group burst into soft laughter.
“Because without us,” Sadie continued, her tone dripping with sarcasm, “this place simply can’t survive.”
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