The New Hire Down the Hall Knew My Name Before HR Did novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Glass Wall
The flashlight stopped at the end of the row.
The beam lay along the top of the partition above our heads, white and steady.
I felt Kyle swallow against my forehead.
"Janssen?" the guard said. "That you?"
"Yes, sir," Kyle said, in his deep polite voice. "Almost done."
I was still moving on him, in tiny rolls, because I could not make myself stop.
"Late again," the guard said.
"Yes, sir."
"Turn off the monitors when you go," the guard said. "Last week they left six running."
"I will."
The boots turned.
When the elevator chimed I came a second time, small and fierce.
My teeth were in the shoulder of his shirt, and I made no sound at all.
Kyle held me through it and started to shake with laughter.
On Thursday at ten, the HR generalist asked us both into the glass conference room, and she did not close the blinds.
Every desk on the third floor had a view of it.
She sat at the head of the long table with a folder squared in front of her.
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