Everyone Had a Key but Me novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: Found Family
By ten o'clock, the whole lab had read the post.
They stood in a ring around Freja's monitor, and nobody pretended to work.
"Forty thousand people," said the youngest on the team, a tall boy everyone called the intern.
"Forty-one," Freja said. "She's gaining."
"Who is she?" the intern asked.
"Nobody," I said. "A woman my ex-boyfriend grew up with."
"Is the ex-boyfriend the one standing in the hallway pretending to read a fire notice?"
Gabe, in the doorway, turned a page of a fire notice that was not a book.
I put my face in my hands.
When I looked up, my old supervisor had come out of her office with her glasses on her forehead.
"Claire." Her voice was perfectly calm. "Is any of this true?"
"No."
"Good. Then you will keep your desk, your salary, and your coffee." She turned to the room. "If anyone arrives at this building asking for Claire, they speak to me, then to the police, then to Freja."
"Why Freja last?" the intern asked.
"Because she's the one you should be afraid of."
Freja stood up.
She was five foot eight in boots, and she glared at the post.
"I'm reporting that account," she said. "I'm reporting it from my phone, my laptop, and my mother's phone."
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