All Her Little Secrets

by Wanda M. Morris

Six forty-five in the morning was far too early for keeping secrets.

Vera and her friends had a saying: Never get your honey where you make your money.

I’m the only Black person in the Legal Department. I’m not saying one had anything to do with the other, but if an employee’s office space reflects their value to the company, Houghton didn’t think much of me.

The silence between us was uncomfortable, but her pregnant pause was wasted on me. I’m a lawyer. We invented the pregnant pause.