CHAPTER 54

Zach, looked up from the file that he is reading when he heard a knock on his door, Wednesday, the following week. He saw Elise outside and he immediately beckoned her to come in.

“You called for me, sir?” Elise asked a bit louder before she closed the door, as what he had instructed her to do every time, she would come to see him. She approached his desk and stood, to Zach’s surprise, behind one chair. “Sir, is there something you need?”

“Take a seat, Elise,” Zach instructed firmly.

When Elise finally did, he looked at her quietly, observing her posture.

“What happened?” He finally asked her. “You were on an emergency leave the past two days. I do hope that nothing serious had happen to you or your family. Is there something that you need to tell me?”

Elise looked at him nervously for a long while, not saying a thing. She is gripping her fists tightly above her tablet on her lap, looking down at her hands for a while. When she finally looked at Zach straight in the eyes, he had noted