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I had just settled at my desk, flipping open my laptop, when my office phone rang.

"Anna," Mrs. Duval’s crisp but warm voice came through, "could you come to my office for a moment?"

"Of course," I said, setting aside my things and making my way down the hall.

Mrs. Duval’s office was spacious but not intimidating—sunlight streamed in from the tall windows, a few plants softened the corners, and the walls were lined with neat binders and leadership manuals. Honestly, it felt more like a school counsellor’s office than a corporate shark’s lair.

I knocked lightly.

"Come in!" Mrs. Duval called.

I stepped in, offering a polite smile. "You asked to see me?"

"Yes, dear, come, sit," she said, gesturing to the chair in front of her desk.

I took a seat, folding my hands neatly in my lap.

She leaned forward slightly, her expression somewhere between encouraging and serious. In her early fifties, dressed sharply in a navy suit, with short dark hair just beginning to gray at the temples, she exude
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