Alone in the elevator with President Lee, Willow felt emboldened. Not because she was not afraid of the man, she was, but he had so far been relatively down to earth, and had asked her to speak her mind. She would have been a fool not to use the opportunity to figure out what was going on between him and Mina. Especially since her friend kept casting her warning gazes.
Willow knew better than to think that Mina was being spiteful or petty, because the girl did not think that way. She did not perceive other women as a threat, not because she was conceited, but because she did not feel like she was in competition with anyone. For as long as Willow knew Mina, the girl only had three goals; graduate, get a respectable job, and take care of her family; men were an afterthought.
