" So, Ms Valerie?"
" I- I know nothing about this Miss Margarette, I swear!" Val stuttered in her defense. She straight straight into Maggie's eyes in desperation for the slightest sign of belief in them. Val even became more honorific towards her.
However, the silence all around gave her enough of the answers she needed. No one trusted her. Not even her co-managers who had been her colleague for the past few days. She had no one to confide in, she was all alone against the whole company. Literally!
The pressure was tantamount!
" I- I..." Val didn't know what to say. Her heart raced both in fear and distress. She never wanted her name to go down this way, never!
" Believe me!" She sobbed in one last outcry of desperation. Her knees became weak and she slumped. " It wasn't me..." Val
