Chapter 8 - Fling, ex-girlfriend, ex-CEO

**Three months later**

Thomas and Arielle were living in their high.

Their work was going exceedingly well.

They were practically living together. No one knew of the secret fling.

They were happy and content with each other.

However, the company was in chaos.

Arielle was good at her job. She had accurately flagged most of the employees hired through back-doors - using connections or due to sucking up to others, rather than their workability.

She had, similarly, flagged troublesome projects likely to end up as a liability.

There were a lot of peaceful and forced exits and contract breaches in the last three months.

That led to a series of unrest among the employees. The internal stir and tense environment had Arielle and Thomas cracking their heads.

It was evident that people were let go due to their incompetence. As such, people hired on merit and doing their work well need not have panicked, but unfortunately, that was not the case.

Arielle suspected that someone could be