Chapter 2: Four Words
He didn't say a word about what had just happened.
He simply pulled the chair back into its place, sat down, and opened his folder across his knees.
That was somehow worse than if he had said something.
The young woman cleared her throat.
"I didn't realize—"
"That's alright." His voice was calm.
Unhurried.
The kind of calm that comes from having seen this before.
The woman in the navy suit had not left.
She stood just inside the lobby, arms folded, watching.
Another staff member appeared at the interview-room door and gave a small nod.
The older man rose and buttoned the front of his jacket.
He turned briefly toward the applicant.
"Good luck today."
She opened her mouth.
Nothing came out.
He walked through the interview-room door first.
It closed behind him.
The remaining candidates had stopped pretending to look at their phones.
One woman near the window pressed her lips together.
A younger man stared at the floor.
The applicant sat very still, her handbag balanced on her knees, her resume face-down on the empty chair beside her.
Then the staff member at the door looked directly at her and said four words that made the color leave her face completely.
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What those four words were — and what she found out about the man she had dismissed — is not what anyone in that lobby expected.
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