Briana suddenly snapped.
“This is insane!” she shouted. “Security!”
Nobody came.
Because at that exact moment, every employee’s phone buzzed again.
A second notification.
COMPANY-WIDE EMERGENCY BOARD NOTICE.
Mandatory executive meeting.
Effective immediately.
The sender line made several people physically straighten.
N.CLEGG — MAJORITY OWNER.
The air disappeared from the room.
One intern actually laughed nervously because her brain couldn’t process it.
“That’s not possible…”
But it was.
Nora bent down slowly and picked up the plastic badge Briana had ripped from her uniform.
Then, in complete silence, she flipped it over.
The gray janitor ID slid free from another card hidden beneath it.
Black metal.
Minimal design.
One silver line across the front.
OWNER ACCESS.
Briana’s face lost all color.
“You…” she breathed.
Nora finally spoke.
Quietly.
“You should never humiliate people whose names are on the building permits.”
Nobody moved.
Somewhere near the back, a printer continued spitting paper uselessly into the silence.
Briana tried recovering fast.
People like her always did.
“Oh my God,” she laughed weakly. “This is some kind of test, right? Hidden executive audit? You were pretending to be a janitor?”
Nora looked at her calmly.
“For eleven months.”
A man near accounting whispered:
