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The Staff Divide

Author: Jarish143
last update publish date: 2025-12-26 10:04:14

The building felt different now.

Jenna sensed it the moment the elevator doors slid open onto the executive floor of J&J Headquarters.

The hum of voices did not stop when she stepped out.

They dipped.

Not in reverence—but in calculation.

She walked forward anyway, her heels steady against the marble that had once felt familiar but now felt like contested ground. Glass walls reflected fragments of her image: sharper eyes, a leaner face, and a posture hardened by hunger, cages, and bone-deep fear
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