Evelyn Sherman stuffed her cell phone into her bag, pulled open the room door, and prepared to go to work.
She punched in at the company at 8:30 and saw the elevator doors about to close. She hurriedly called out, "Wait a second!"
But as soon as she shouted, the people inside the elevator saw it was her, and someone immediately spat out a curse as a hand quickly pressed the elevator door close button.
She watched, wide-eyed, as the elevator missed her by just one step...
"I heard Mr. Chester is so bewitched by her now that anyone who gets close to her is out of luck. Let's take another elevator..."
"Climbing the ladder through unspoken rules and still flaunting it so openly, does she really think being pretty gives her carte blanche? If I were her, I'd be hiding in shame and not daring to face anyone..."
"What do you know? She's been suspected of being a traitor and is unscathed, how could she understand shame..."
"..."
