Accidentally Yours (The Improbable Meet-Cute: Second Chances #1)
January 14, 2026 iMessage
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Veronica C.
Story time.
Clara C.
Yes!! I was just looking for an excuse to stop working.
So you know how I had that job interview today
Haven’t you already had like seven this week??
Well yes my adorable and fully employed sister, that’s how it goes in this market. Anyway, I had another one today, ostensibly for Chief Marketing Officer at BioLight
Is that like Bud Light, but by biologists, so it’s like actually good beer?
They use bioluminescence in their biochemical assays to determine ATP levels. But I like your answer better so let’s go with that.
You really did your research.
So, the interview is at 10am. Of course I’m at my desk ten minutes early, mouse hovering over the zoom link.
Such a Virgo.
And also very Virgo of me is to keep my camera off until everyone else has turned theirs on. I’m very glad I do this
Because
Somehow I ended up in a Zoom room with a bunch of tech bros, having a meeting in progress that I wasn’t actually invited to
So wait.
It wasn’t BioLight?
No, I have no idea what the company was
That’s freaking hilarious
It was a marketing meeting, and one of the bros was presenting
And when I say it was the worst slide deck I’d ever seen
I mean it was the worst, and that includes slides that Daniella made when I was babysitting her and she randomly opened PowerPoint on my laptop and started key smashing
lol I still feel guilty that my child broke so many keys on your laptop
Who uses the T and E and space keys? Come on.
Anyway, I listened to the presentation for a few minutes
Because in my head I’m like
These guys need marketing help
And there you were
There I was
Just an uninvited black box on the screen
Little did they know how much I could do for them
Alas, I remembered that I spent the last four years working with these same kinds of guys, saving them from their bad graphics and terrible pitches and watching them be promoted over me until, finally, I was let go with a paltry six-month severance
Preach it, sis
And I just got so mad suddenly that I gave so many ideas to the company and they took them, signed accounts, handed out bonuses to everyone at the level just above mine, and then let me go when I complained to HR that I was overdue for a promotion.
I’m just over here cheering out loud
Like screw these guys and their basic Keynote template slides and their recycled ideas!
I don’t think anyone noticed I’d joined, so I carefully changed my username from my email to just my initials and unmuted and told them their slides were absolute garbage, but about ten times more brutal, and then logged off.
My younger sister: my hero.