The Corporate Undead
The water in the hotel pool was impossibly blue, the kind of artificial color that exists only in places where people pretend to relax. Elena sat on the edge, her legs dangling in ...
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The water in the hotel pool was impossibly blue, the kind of artificial color that exists only in places where people pretend to relax. Elena sat on the edge, her legs dangling in ...
The pool at the Desert Springs Resort was empty at 2 AM, which was exactly why Elena had chosen it. She floated on her back, staring up at the constellations she couldn't name, nur...
Elena watched from the padel court's sidelines as Carlos's racquet connected with the ballโa sharp, satisfying crack that echoed through the indoor arena. His shirt was soaked thro...
The ball ricocheted off the glass wall with a violence that matched the storm raging behind Elena. Thunder cracked, and for a second, lightning illuminated everythingโher sweat-sli...
Elena smoothed the silk of her cocktail dress, catching her reflection in the restaurant's floor-to-ceiling windows. A corporate spy for three years, she'd learned that the best se...
Maria stood at the edge of what was supposed to be her company's new rooftop pool, now just a concrete basin filled with three months of rainwater and debris. Above, the palm trees...
Maya had been living as a zombie for three years, though her file at Langley called it "deep cover." She'd forgotten what it felt like to make a choice that wasn't weighed against ...
Mara sat at the edge of the infinity pool, her oversized straw hat casting a shadow over her face. She'd come to this Mexican resort aloneโsomething she never thought she'd do at f...
Maggie's hair had started falling out in clutches three months after the promotion. Stress, her doctor said, prescribing vitamins she never remembered to take. Now she ran a hand t...
The orange glow of sunset spilled across the hotel pool where Marcus sat alone, nursing a whiskey that had long gone warm. Three months after the divorce, and this was what his lif...
The padel court shimmered in the Cancun heat, a rectangle of artificial blue beneath an unforgiving sun. Elena adjusted her grip on the racket, her palm slick with sweat. Across th...
Marcus traced the lines on his palm, the creases deepening with each passing year of corporate warfare. At forty-seven, he'd been laid off for the first timeโa casualty of the 'str...