Chapter 28Kayla did her best to not focus on her pain but to feel productive by plotting moves to make Melissa take notice. She dressed as sexily as she dared for work and made a point of going in to the shared office when she noticed the other teacher was in there. Once in the office, Kayla would root around in her desk and bend over and make sure her backside was on display for Melissa. She would go over to a bookshelf against the wall and look for something, and she could feel the other woman’s eyes on her. Kayla even found a work-related reason to sit down with Melissa and speak with her. One of her students was failing math, and the parents had called and requested a conference. As this was her first such conference, she obviously needed her mentor’s help to prepare. Sitting in thei

