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“Why haven’t we ever done this before,” Poppy said, moaning around another mouthful of monkey bread.
“You sound indecent.”
“This bread is indecent,” she said, licking the icing from one of the bread balls.
“Stop licking the balls, you perv,” I said and laughed. Then a thought hit me. “Or let me take a picture of you.”
“Who’s the perv now?” she said raising her eyebrows.
I laughed.
“Go ahead,” she said, picking up a piece of the bread with her fingers and posing with her tongue stuck out, eyes closed. I grabbed my phone, snapped the picture, and showed it to her.
“Don’t show that to Mom. I look like a porn star.”
She kind of did. Which was why I did my sisterly duty and forwarded the picture to Theo in reply to his lastHow’s she doingtext.
He typed something. Then the three dots disappeared. Then started again. Finally, he just repliedthx.
I laughed so hard I snorted.
“What’s so funny?” Poppy narrowed her eyes at me. “Did you send that picture to Lauren?”
“Nope,” I said, locking my phone and putting it on the table.
She grabbed it, unlocked it, and gasped. “You bitch.”
Then her face softened as she scrolled back through my text exchange with Theo. “He was really worried, huh?”
I nodded and sipped my coffee. My phone rang in Poppy’s hands, and she frowned. “Wasn’t Gwen your mentor at Pinnacle Group?”
“Give me that,” I said, grabbing the phone. Sure enough, my former mentor was requesting a video call, which would have been strange when we worked together, let alone now.
“Good,” Gwen said when I accepted the call. “You’re sitting down.”
She was at her desk in the office, which was also odd for a Saturday.
“All hell is breaking loose here,” Gwen said, glancing toward the hallway. “I thought you’d want to see it. The head of HR just fired Kelli and Brad. Look!”
She turned the phone to the hallway, and I watched as my soon-to-be ex-husband and former boss walked down the hall, each carrying a file box.
Gwen turned the phone back to her face. “I’m assuming you knew they were sleeping together.”
I nodded. “The accident happened right after I walked in on them together in her office.”
Gwen blew out a breath. “Well, that explains why you quit without notice. I thought you’d had some life epiphany when that scooter hit you and decided you weren’t cut out for finance. Brad never mentioned you were separating.”
“It doesn’t exactly paint him in a good light.”
Gwen nodded, her face sad. “I wish you’d have told me. I could have moved you to a different team.”
“I didn’t want to see either of them again.”
“Well,” Gwen said. “Now you don’t have to. Turns out Kelli was completely incompetent. IT did a little digging and determined you created all the reports she’d been assigned. They also looked through her emails and IMs and discovered the relationship with Brad.”
“That was enough to fire him?” I asked, leaning back in my chair. “They weren’t even in the same department.”
Gwen shook her head. “No, but they dug into his digital history as well and discovered he was sending inappropriate messages to his new management trainee. She asked to be reassigned last week.”
