Chapter 33

One week later. . .

Katie swung the panel doors open, and all eyes in the room turned on her as she walked in. Where was Nick? Slightly Clearing her throat, she slowly began to pick her way past the tangle of bodies present in the hall for the meeting that had been called all of a sudden.

She was making her way to the front so she could have a better view of the stage when Christy Wagner rushed towards her dramatically.

"Congratulations, Katie!" She said, giving Katherine a warm hug. Kate was bewildered. First of all, Christy was in the accounting department so they barely ever saw eye to eye, and secondly, even when they saw, the relationship between them was a little more than official. She wondered how Christy had gotten to know that something great enough to be congratulated about, had happened to her.

But that wasn't what was bothering her most. What exactly was the incident, and how was it that Christy had come to know before her?

"I knew that even if everyone else had fail