Chp. 17

*** Phil ***

Phil sat still at his office desk, hands crossed on his chest, laptop open in front of him. Eyes on the screen, he tried to decide how he felt about what he was staring at in his email. The voices right outside his door interrupted his thoughts.

"What's this about?"

"I've sent him an email and I'd like to see him about it." Came the reply. "I wasn't sure about CCing you, that's why I didn't..."

Why was Linda asking her too many questions? She was not a stranger here. He already knew who was waiting to see him. That voice. His eyes went back to his laptop screen and this time, he hovered his mouse on the email he had expected nearly every day since after her first month on this job.

There was a knock and Linda came inside his office. "Solana wants to see you...

She sent her resignation?"

"Let her in." He said without looking up. He opened the email finally and stared at the first sentence of the girl's resignation without reading further.

In the last two days, he'd allowe