"If you ever change your mind and want to come back into the industry, I'm just a phone call away."
Leah's last words before we parted ways, kept reverberating in my head. An exasperated sigh escaped my lips, my arms pulled tighter across my chest as I started walking to the bus station.
It would've been easier to just take a cab home, but not in the state I was in.
My head was a mess, and I needed the walk to untangle the storm of thoughts spinning around inside it.
I was torn. I'd lost so much—my place in society, my career, my life as I knew it. And now, part of me wanted it all back. Desperately.
But how?
Derek was still there, lurking like a ghost from my past.
And then there was the contract with his agency that was still binding. I had to wait for it to expire before I coul
