I came back to find Rena, the intern, in my office, dropping off some papers. Rena's perfect oval of a face with big almond shaped eyes was shocked to see me. Her light brown hair was cut to her shoulders and bangs fell into her brown eyes. She dressed in black slacks and a light pink blouse.
“Shouldn't you be packing up to leave?” I dropped my purse onto the desk. I picked up some of the papers Rena left.
“Sean asked me to deliver these to everyone first.” She looked guilty, like she was doing something she shouldn’t have been.
The memo stated there was going to be an office wide audit. A serious complaint had been filed and all the case workers were subject to interrogation. I'd never heard of such a thing.
“What is this?” I held the paper up for Rena's inspection. Like she hadn't already read it.
She shrugged. “It came from the downtown office, but no one tells me anything, sorry. I can't imagine anyone here having a serious complaint filed, though. I heard Sean on the phone with someone, sounded like it may have to do with last month’s incident.” It’s like I worked in an office full of eavesdroppers.
“Oh, yeah, I guess that’d make sense. I mean, no other BSB workers from other offices got attacked at their office.” During office hours, by a client, while terrified coworkers called for help.
I couldn't shake the feeling this was about more than last month’s incident. I know what I saw in the parking lot at Leslie's and I knew she was hunting me. To get me away from the safety of the BSB office would take one well placed phone call to the main office. Get an audit going, get a complaint filed, and suddenly I'm on a forced sabbatical and Jessica has an easy target.