They Stole My Project , Now the CEO Is Begging Me Back

The open vote for the Cloudridge Estates Luxury Residences project lead was held today.

Kenneth Fletcher: thirteen votes. Me: zero.

Thirteen people in the design department. Not a single one picked me.

Edmund James jabbed his pen against my name on the ballot, pressing hard.

The ink bled into an illegible smear.

"Ronnie, it was a fair vote. You don't have a problem with that, do you?"

The corner of his mouth curled into the kind of smirk that said I run this department, and you know it.

"Fair."

I rolled the word around in my mouth, slow and quiet.