He Chose His Ex, So I Chose My Empire novel · Chapter 10 of 24
Chapter 10: The Same Floor
I went back to the 31st floor at four o'clock that afternoon.
Not because of the press release.
Because of a whiteboard.
It was the big one from our corner, covered in two years of my handwriting, and the building manager had emailed to say it would be "disposed of" at five.
Jo came with me.
So did the analyst, who insisted on carrying things, and Imogen, who insisted on watching.
The floor went quiet when the elevator opened.
Sabrina's desk had moved.
She'd taken the corner office by the windows, the glass one with the view of the Bay Bridge.
Her name was already on the door in vinyl letters.
President-Designate.
The crowd that had lived around her desk all month had simply moved with her.
They were in her doorway with coffee, laughing at something.
Our old corner was half empty.
My two people who'd stayed were sitting there with their heads down.
One of them looked up at me and mouthed, "Sorry."
I shook my head. Nothing to be sorry for.
The whiteboard was leaning against the wall.
Somebody had started to wipe it and given up halfway.
The analyst and I took one end each.
That was when the elevator opened again.
Hugh walked out onto the floor.
He wasn't in a suit.
He was in a grey sweater and jeans, and he looked like he hadn't slept since the Fairmont.
He saw me holding one end of the whiteboard.
He stopped.
For a moment I thought he'd come over.
He didn't.
He walked to the middle of the open floor instead, the exact spot where the COO had stood to announce the vote.
People had started to notice him.
Phones were coming out.
Sabrina came out of her glass office, smiling, smoothing her skirt.
"Hugh. What a lovely surprise. Come in, I'll get you a..."
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