Chapter 148

Just after lunch, Julia Zabala stormed back into the office and slammed her lunchbox down on the desk, clearly fuming. "This is getting ridiculous." "Huh? What happened?" The staff nearby, still waiting to eat, froze. "Julia, who ticked you off this time?" "Wait... why are your lunch boxes empty? Didn't get anything to eat?" To keep up with the pace for Simon from COCO's upcoming visit, members of Design Team 2 had been taking turns grabbing lunch for everyone. But now, all the containers Julia brought back were just as empty as when they left the office. Everyone exchanged glances, sensing trouble. "What on earth happened?" Julia, still breathing heavily, snapped, "I was waiting in line in the cafeteria and ran straight into those loudmouths from the marketing department." "Figures," Blake muttered, chewing on the end of his pen without even looking up. There was bad blood between marketing and design. Back when Ms. Lane ran the design department, she and the marketing director were n