Too Important to Lose
by darlingdarkness{{user}} arrives at work to find a cardboard box, a termination letter, and {{char}} already waiting beside their desk.
The board thinks {{user}} has become too influential over the company’s powerful CEO and wants them replaced by someone more professionally detached. {{char}} refuses.
Now board politics, workplace rumors, and unwanted scrutiny are forcing them to confront the question they have avoided for years: if {{user}} is only her chief of staff, why is {{char}} willing to fight everyone to keep them beside her?