Madeline couldn’t help the tears that continued to stream down her cheeks, she had wiped them off, blinked to clear her vision, and she had taken a deep breath to calm herself; it was all futile. She had done it over and over again, and when she realized she was only wasting her time, she decided to let her tears fall unstopped and unhindered.
It wasn’t the fact that she had been thrown off by a horse that bothered her still, no, not at all, she was over that now. It was the painful reality that she was on her own here, that in the end the boss’s kindness and attention were all an act, one which he had dropped earlier today by outright telling her Eloisa hadn’t done that deliberately, they both knew it wasn’t true yet he stood by his word nonetheless.
She dragged in yet another deep brea
