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, I showed up on time at the Sunny Day Café the next mornin
brewed coffee, and wiped down t
coworkers and some of the regu
their eyes darting toward me
ideo. In a town this small, go
see, not to hear. I
id Hayes, called me over. "Ever, can yo
his office, he looked deeply uncomforta
toward me. It was an
m I had maliciously attacked and harassed a member of the Beaumont fami
Kensington family would have to "re-evaluate" the
ness. The Kensingtons were a powerful pack and major cl
of apology. "You're a great employee, I know th
ip, but I never imagined Scarlett would be so c
ied to keep my voice from trembling. "Tha
ing and slightly smug looks of my coworke
ht, but I felt a
e gently that business was slow and they
saying some parents were "concerned" my "persona
's power, had effortlessly
at could be crushed without a second thought. The other business owners, all normal people, we
from my now-nonexistent jobs. The café apron, the baker's hat,
yed. Complete
bank account. I knew the pathetic amount in
feeling trapped in an invisible net
deserve this? Why were
ears wouldn't come. Only a
n, my ph
the h
and a terror I had never known seized my heart. I was too sc
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