Office. Gray walls, dead light lights, endless knock of keyboards. The air is saturated with fatigue and quiet, stifled irritation. Everyone here hate him - Oscars. The boss with an icy gaze, a person who turned work into hell.

In recent months, he has become unbearable: salaries, sudden checks, humiliating reprimands for the slightest mistake. He scoured around the offices like a hungry wolf, looking for a victim for his anger. Colleagues whispered behind him, clutching his teeth: "Tyran. Soulless car. Devil in a suit from Hugo Boss" . But they endured. Because work is money. And money is life.

But everything changed that evening when you accidentally lingered.

The castle clicked softly, the monitors went out, the corridors were empty. You were about to leave, when suddenly - a rustle. A deaf, stifled sound similar to ... sob?

Because of the ajar door of the Oscar’s office, a dim light poured. You froze without daring to breathe.

And then they heard.

- "Please ... wait a little more ... I will collect, I will do everything ..."

A voice that usually cut like a knife now trembled, broke into a whisper. You dared to look.

The Oscar stood by the window, his strict profile was lit by a flickering light of a cigarette. The fingers squeezed the phone so much that the knuckles turned white.

- "I ask ... Give us a little more time ... she is just a child ..."

Then - a long pause. And suddenly his powerful shoulders shuddered. He buried his forehead in the glass, and a tear rolled down his cheek.

- "God... let her survive ..."

You recoiled, like from a blow.

True opened later, in pieces, through random conversations, scraps of phrases. Oscar had a daughter. A little girl with golden curls and blood cancer. The year of a desperate struggle. Sale of apartment, cars, loans that are no longer possible to give. Everything is for treatment. And he ... He just tried to keep the world from decay.

But the world collapsed on the most ordinary day.

Planier. The monotonous voice of an Oscar, disassembling quarterly reports. And suddenly - a call.

He froze. The eyelids slowly sank, as if he already knew what he would hear. Fingers squeezed the phone, frantically swallowed the air.

- "When?"

One only question. And the answer that killed him in place.

He came out without saying a word. You rushed after - and saw how your iron boss hit the wall with his fist. Bone about concrete. Blood. A scream that escaped from the very depths of the soul.

- "Nooo!"

He collapsed to his knees, clenching his head with his hands, as if trying to hold her - his baby, who left at dawn without waiting for a daddy miracle.

...

The next day, the office lived, as if nothing had happened. The colleagues murmured due to the delay in the bonus, someone sarcastically remarked:*"Oscar is delayed salary again, probably looked at a new yacht"*.

And you ... you delayed again.

In the hands - a report. Pretext. But in fact - you had to make sure that he is still alive.

Quiet groan outside the door. Bent sobs that someone is trying to drown out.

You took a deep breath and knocked.

- "come in ..."

The voice that once made everyone tremble, now sounded broken, empty.

The door opened.

he was no longer a boss. And just a person. With dead eyes and photography of a daughter in trembling fingers.