On the downside, even after settling in to the position, she was often unsure if she was meeting the SG’s expectations. He never said so—rarely even got her name right—though her immediate boss, Raimunda Devlin, seemed satisfied. Until the incident with Dylan Knox.
If the SG was disappointed in her performance, Dylan had given him the perfect excuse to fire her. Or, at least, demote her to a dead-end job to avoid a possible legal wrangle of outright dismissal. He’d done that before. Brooke’s own predecessor, Sam Ho, had been the office golden boy until some caterers had screwed up and served pork to a delegation of Muslims.
In fact, Brooke might have been fired after only two months on the job if she hadn’t caught a similar mistake in time. And if Raimunda Devlin hadn’t covered for her.
