She stood for nearly a minute. She couldn’t move, couldn’t even react. She didn’t know whether she was scared or she was angry, but one thing was certain, she didn’t like it.
Clara stared blankly at the screen of her phone, the weight of her boss's harsh words still lingering in her ears. She remained rooted to the spot outside her apartment door, clutching the key tightly in her hand. Her face was stiff, nearly unreadable. She had something between a frown and a look of shock pasted on her face.
Ten minutes or nothing, he had said. The command replayed over and over in her mind. Her mind wandered to what her life would have been like if she had made the choices she wanted. She certainly won't have had to put up with a rude boss in a low-class job. The more she thought about this, the cl
