You Should Believe Her by Karen Klinger

Author:Karen Klinger [Klinger, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 5

It was a Friday, the end of a week and the end of another month at Langdon Inc. Now, that was a huge company, well, it was run by billionaires, to say the least. To stay on top of the entire world market and to keep employees on their toes, everyone, from the newly contracted janitor to the two directors and most important people of the company, there was an extreme sense of competitiveness. There were rows and rows of employees of the month, prizes and awards, recognition for divisions and branches of the company, and, the most awaited announcement each month, which department was the best, sales or production. Despite the clear advantage of the department lead by the capable Mallory Langdon, turns out that her brother had a very competent team on his side and he wasn’t that bad at choosing who should do his job for him. So, even if the production department was used to winning, it wasn’t a completely given result.

That’s why it wasn’t completely unbelieve that that month, the department sales won the competition. All the employees clapped politely, the executives of the department brought out champagne, Tom acted like he had won the presidency, and everyone congratulated Amanda, kind of knowing it was mostly thanks to her. The only problem with her victory was that standing in front of her was Mallory, defeated and reacting immensely graceful about it. No one but Amanda was able to notice the tension on her shoulders and the tightness of her smile. But there was nothing she could have done then, Amanda smiled, shook hands and received the glass of champagne offered by her boss on the first day he had been genuinely pleasant.

As it had become part of their routine, Mallory and Amanda left the office together, and Mallory would drive Amanda home. Often, on the weekends, they’d spent their night together, but this time Mallory hadn’t asked, and Amanda didn’t know why but she didn’t find the courage to ask. The tension hadn’t lifted from Mallory’s entire body, though that didn’t stop her from praising Amanda’s job as earnestly as usual.

“I’m proud of you, you know?” she said, her left hand effortlessly working on the steering wheel and her right hand interlocked with Amanda’s. “This has to be the best performance of the sales department.”

“Thank you,” Amanda whispered as she blushed.

“Oh don’t be shy!” Mallory laughed fondly, “You know this is all yours. It’s certainly not Tom’s achievement.”

“You know what? This is almost the perfect job.” Amanda said, “If it wasn’t for Tom, this would all be perfect.”

“Is he still bothering you too much?”

“No, not much. Sometimes he makes me want to set the building on fire, or him, or me.”

Amanda laughed, but unknowingly, her answer only worsened Mallory’s state.

“I hate the idea of him making your life miserable.”

“My life’s fine. He just makes me hate the world a ninety percent of the time,” Amanda continued to laugh, bubbly with all the champagne.

“You don’t

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