Richard's face changed completely. "Diane, you signed a confidentiality agreement."
She looked at him with more courage than I had seen in a long time.
"I signed under threat," she said. "And I am done being afraid of you."
He took a step toward her. "You have no idea what you're doing."
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"No," she fired back. "You didn't know what you were doing when you went after Bennett. That's the problem. You thought nobody would come back for him."
Richard snapped, "Get out."
Diane didn't even flinch.
Instead, she looked at me and said, "Arthur is downstairs. The board is meeting with Halverson right now."
I picked up Richard's check, tore it cleanly in half, then tore it again.
The pieces fell across his desk like dead leaves.
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"You should have looked me in the eye the day you fired me," I said.
Then Diane and I walked out together.
