Chapter 54

"How about this coffee?" asked Coy.

Thorne glanced at the coffee cup on his desk with disdain. "Take it away and get me a glass of tap water, will you?"

Coy nodded. "Sure thing."

At noon, Stewart went out for a business lunch, leaving Charlene to dine alone in the company cafeteria.

Though polite, her colleagues kept their distance. It didn't seem to bother Charlene much.

After lunch, she plunged back into her work. As the clock ticked past five, she approached Patton, her project manager. "I think I've pretty much nailed it. Do you want to take a look?" "What?" Patton was initially confused, but as he perused the documents Charlene handed over, his confusion turned into utter disbelief. "You... you've finished everything?"

It was a workload that Raleigh, the previous team leader, had scheduled over a fortnight to finish. And Charlene had deciphered and finished it all in less than a day? "Yep," Charlene confirmed.