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42: The Visit I Didn’t Expect

Author: Khadijah Bunza
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-10 14:20:26

|| Rachel ||

I glanced at the clock on the office wall. It had been more than thirty minutes since I started waiting for Slade. I wondered what Samantha was doing here. I hoped we didn’t have another problem on our hands. The added tension since Clarissa’s death had been unbearable.

All I wanted was for all of this to be over. I just wanted the peace of having my family without the worries that never let me breathe.

I stood up to check his office—maybe he had gone back there and forgotten to come see me. That’s when the door opened, and a lady walked in. She wore a black dress, and her blonde hair swept into an elegant French twist.

The moment I saw her, I recognized her. She was the woman I had seen in the restroom at the company gala—the first time I ever returned, though her name had escaped me.

But she had been in tears because of…

It couldn’t be. She was Samantha.

We stared at each other, the air suddenly thin and charged with unspoken rivalry.

“You must be Rachel, Slade’s secret
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