“Hey, are you alright?” It was Hannah, the young Administrative Staff member, whose table was next to Aloida’s work station. From the start, it was Hannah, who had been attentive and friendly to Aloida.
Aloida turned her head to see the young woman, who tapped her shoulder and asked her with concern written all over her face.
“Hannah, it’s you. I am fine. Do you need anything?” Aloida asked, somewhat surprised.
Hannah sat on Aloida’s executive desk and looked at her with queries in her eyes. “I saw you looking devastated when you got out of the Chairman’s office a while ago. Did he reprimand you again?”
“Hannah, I am okay. I made a mistake, so it was acceptable that he got upset,” Aloida responded. She needed to come up with a lie to satisfy the curiosity of Hannah, and erase her wor
