The Affair
Martha’s investigation uncovered something far more sordid than office politics.
Over the next three weeks, she pieced together a trail of private emails, calendar invites for ‘strategy meetings’ that never appeared in company logs, and expense reports for business dinners at suspiciously romantic restaurants.
The truth was as cliché as it was disgusting: Becca had been sleeping with CEO Greg Walters.
Their affair had started just two weeks after she joined the company—around the same time she began filming those ‘corporate comedy’ videos that never seemed to get her in trouble.
But the real bombshell came when Martha discovered messages from three months ago, when Greg had apparently tried to end things. ‘We need to be professional,’ he’d written. Becca’s response made my blood run cold: ‘Delete that.
Unless you want your wife seeing our Vegas photos? I need that management position by next month. And make sure HR knows I’m untouchable.
‘ The screenshots showed everything—the blackmail, his panicked agreement, and worst of all, his direct order to HR to ‘handle the Cathy situation’ when I filed my complaint.
No wonder Janet couldn’t look me in the eye when she mentioned those ‘undisclosed reasons.
‘ The company’s silence wasn’t just protecting Becca—it was protecting their married CEO from a scandal that would destroy his career and possibly his marriage. Martha looked at me over her reading glasses, her expression grim but determined.
‘We’ve got them, Cathy. But we need something concrete that ties all this together—something they can’t deny or explain away.
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