May this promise last a lifetime

Chapter 15 - A little trick

Wriothesley's POV

 I have made a major miscalculation!

 No.

 That is actually an understatement.

 I f*cked up big time!

 Ah!

 Damn it!

 Today was Saturday.

 Usually, I would have dropped Sigewinne off at Navia's place, but some urgent new information that could, as she put it, be a matter of life and death, had come up in one of the cases she was working on and she had to cancel.

 As such, I was forced to bring Sigewinne to work with me.

 Luckily for me, today I only had to file some paperwork related to yesterday's matter and I could go home.

 Or so I thought.

 What the hell is this?!

 I had three giant piles of paperwork dropped on my desk.

 At least Sigewinne wouldn't be bored working on that test Neuvillette had given her.

 The test I found out was one of last year's LSATs.

 ...

 Neuvillette! What the hell are you giving my daughter?!

 She's six years old for god's sake!

 Still, this has yet to become my biggest predicament of the day.

 What has me freaking out is-

 "Wriothesley. That annoying- Mr. Neuvillette is looking for you. Apparently, you have something of his" One of my colleagues quickly told me before running off.

 That.

 Damn it!

 The car keys!

 Who the hell would have thought he would come to pick them up himself?!

 I thought he would send Alhaitham or something.

 Does he not know that half the people in this building have explicit murder plans written on a piece of paper hidden in their locker?!

 Some are not even hidden!

 A group bought a giant whiteboard to make elaborate plans and hung it in the conference room!

 Fortunately, Clorinde had taken Sigewinne away for lunch.

 If she was here the chaos would have been bigger.

 Naturally, as soon as I exited my office all eyes were still on me.

 I caught the first person walking by by the collar, ignoring the stares.

 "Where is he."

 I didn't have to specify who I was talking about.

 "He's in the conference room."

 ...

 "Who led him to the conference room?"

 "Amalie did." He answered.

 "And you guys didn't stop her?!"

 F*ck!

 Amalie had been out on an assignment for a few weeks! She didn't know about the whiteboard!

 "Did you guys at least remove the damn whiteboard from the room?" I forced out.

 You could hear a pin drop in the silence that ensued.