Episode 14 – The Invitation
Asher's POV
For three days...
Everything returned to normal.
Meetings stacked upon meetings.
Deadlines looming over quarterly reports.
Endless conference calls with regional directors who cared more about profit margins than office morale.
Yet every time I looked through the clear glass wall of my office...
Elena was working.
Quietly.
Efficiently.
Without a single complaint.
Even after I had wrongly blamed her.
The accusation had left my mouth before I had verified the figures—a rookie mistake I had spent a decade training myself to avoid. I had expected her to retaliate, to file a formal grievance, or at the very least to treat me with cold hostility. Instead, she had simply fixed the error, handed me the corrected file, and returned to her desk wi
