Guilty by Lilian Monroe

Author:Lilian Monroe [Monroe, Lilian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

23

Nicole

I pat my purse with my hand, knowing that my letter of resignation is sitting in there like an atomic bomb. I’m giving up my salary, my health insurance… and Martin.

But is it really giving him up if I never had him to begin with? Maybe he was just using me. I wasn’t special, or different. I was convenient.

Cracks spider over my heart and I take a deep breath. When I walk into the firm, I head straight for Carmen’s office. She’s already here, as usual. She’s always here. The woman works like no one I’ve ever met before. She’s strong and powerful and I respect her, but I just can’t work for her anymore.

I pause before going in, taking a deep breath to steel myself. I remember Jenna’s calming words last night as she helped me compose my letter.

“Do it for Jack, Nic,” she’d said. “Be true to yourself and honor his memory.”

I take a deep breath and knock on Carmen’s door.

“Come in,” she says. When I push the door open, she doesn’t look up. She’s scratching something down on her huge stack of papers, her reading glasses perched on the end of her nose.

I clear my throat. She looks up, sliding the glasses off her face and arching her eyebrows in surprise.

“Nicole.”

“Carmen, hi.” I clear my throat again, shifting awkwardly from foot to foot. She gestures to one of the chairs across her desk. I sit down, holding my purse over my thighs. I take a deep breath, and Carmen folds her hands on her desk. Her gaze is unflinching, and she just waits for me to start.

“First of all, I wanted to thank you for everything you’ve done for me. Working here has been a great opportunity, and I’ve learned so much.”

Start with something nice to soften the blow.

Carmen leans back in her chair, still pointing those laser beam eyes at me.

I take a deep breath and reach into my purse. “I’d like to hand in my resignation. I’ve put my last day as two weeks from today. I want you to know that it’s nothing personal, I’ve just decided that I need to focus on healing from the accident.”

I slide the letter across the desk and Carmen looks at it for a brief moment. She tents her hands in front of her, tapping the pads of her fingers against each other.

“What brought this on, Nicole?”

She doesn’t make a move to touch the letter.

I take a deep breath. Does she know about me and Martin? Probably. There have been enough whispers around the office, she’d have to be seriously out of touch not to know.

“It’s not because of Martin, is it? That would be a real shame.”

So she does know.

I shrug and shake my head. I’m not really sure how to answer.

Carmen takes a deep breath. “It would be a shame to lose such a valuable employee because of a… personal matter.”

She thinks I’m a valuable employee? I stare at a spot on her desk and try to gather my thoughts.

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