Chapter 16Hailee flopped down on her bed that night, utterly exhausted. The presentation had gone well. Even as her face turned red, and she was worried she’d looked like a r****h, the crowd had been receptive. She got through the twenty minutes and then listened intently to the other papers.
The Q and A session, though, that had only reminded her of what Indie said over and over. You are a bully. You interrupt people. Every time someone stepped up to the mic to ask a question, that was what it felt like—only it was others interrupting her, others being a bully. She did her best to remain calm and cool, but the setting provoked her. The only way she could prevail in all of this was to interrupt or bully back. Hailee wanted to be seen as smart. She wanted to talk, and talk, and talk. She j
