won’t go anywhere.” Christina stepped forward, waiting.
“Yeah,” Taylor mumbled. “Okay.” She wondered what could be so bad
that it had to be kept a secret.
“It was our accountant,” Christina whispered. “It’s a long, sordid story,
so I’ll shorten it, because we both have places we probably have to be. He
was caught doing something on porn sites. Watching it or downloading it or
something. Not the good kind either.”
“What’s the good kind?” Taylor asked in a snarky voice.
Christina took it in stride. “None, I guess. Not when it comes to doing
that crap on a work computer. He crashed his computer, which was filled up
with accounting stats that were all lost, and it was expensive to repair. He
did it on his laptop too, and I’m not sure, but I think they were able to
recover some of our company stuff from that. He got fired, of course, but
everyone in the office was talking about it. We’re not a new company, but I
do work for a fairly new branch. The president and vice president of the
branch were worried that word was going to get out and it would ruin
everything. People wouldn’t be confident investing, and no one would want
to borrow money. It was set to be a huge disaster and they wanted to do
something that would give the company some good PR in case the porn
story got out.”
“Are you kidding me?” Taylor hissed. “I’m being used as a PR gig? My
idea? You pitched my idea about making lives better, a good idea, for the
good of people and animals— you pitched that to cover up a porn scandal?”
Christina didn’t bother with denials. She just straight up nodded, and
Taylor could kind of appreciate her honesty. “That’s basically how it
happened, but I’m not getting anything out of it like you insinuated. I’m
trying to save my job, yes, and the jobs of all the people who work for the
company. People who work hard every single day. People who did nothing
wrong. People who could lose their jobs if the branch closed. There are a lot
of them.”