"Go. Before you get your latest bad decision suspended from his job." The jab hung in the air, a clear shot piercing through the armor she had carefully erected around her body. She didn’t know why it stung quite as much as it did, but she was enraged at the tears welling in the corner of her eyes. She had already admitted that there had been something off about him, but the personal attack on her character by a man she’d respected still hurt like a motherfucker. 