25 EDITH As soon as I left the office with a box full of my belongings, I threw everything into the first rubbish bin on the street. I didn't give a damn about my belongings and the memories of that crappy office. At that moment I only felt like killing Jake. I had kept the phone number he had called me with three years earlier, so I immediately phoned him. "Edith, you have twenty minutes to get to the airport and board with me," he exclaimed in an amused tone. "You piece of s**t! You just got me fired!" "You'll thank me when we get to Seattle." "I'm not going back to Seattle!" "How are you going to pay the rent on your studio apartment this month?" "You could give me my money back now that you no longer need it. Your decept

