Chapter 6

Anna was sick.

Heather was slightly glad about it after she’d embarrassed her so much last night. She deserved to be punished by the powers that be, in Heather’s opinion.

Ironically, Anna was suffering from a small bout of alcohol poisoning.

After the trip to the hospital, Heather called in at work and said she wouldn’t be arriving today as she had to care for her friend. It was Friday, but since the workers of Holdings Place had unofficially made it everyone’s off day, the few people around didn’t really care that she wouldn’t be coming, as they weren’t really working either.

Even Mr. Igalmen didn’t mind—he got to spend more time with his wife.

‘I should call a meeting about this,’ he thought every Friday when he met the half-empty offices but found that he never did.

At the exact same moment Igalmen was waltzing around his office with his wife (curtains drawn, of course), Zac was moodily traipsing down the street. He bitterly wished he smoked, s