After setting up the interview with Lucia, Aurora and I finished interviewing the other candidates and returned to the office to finalize a few more choices. We'd hire the rest gradually.

That afternoon, while I was engrossed in designing the new spring collection, I heard arguing outside. One voice was very familiar, and the other wasn't exactly strange either.

I had just opened the door but hadn't stepped out when I heard Aurora say, "Didn't you hear me? I said we don't want ...