Celeste
A whole month.
That’s how long I’d been in New York, how long I’d been living in the mansion that wasn’t my home and how long I’d been working at The Daily Grind a small, cozy cafe a thirty-minute bus ride from Jared’s mansion .
My boss Maria was an angel. A tough no-nonsense angel with kind eyes.
Something I never expected, I mean judging by my last job in Seattle… Isabella was a living nightmare.
Working for Natasha has been nothing but a blessing… She’d taken one look at my worn-out resume and my desperate face and said, “You look like you can handle a rush. Can you start tomorrow?” I almost cried right there at the counter.
At the mansion things were… quiet. I stuck to my routine and returned late, making sure to skip breakfast and dinner.
It was like I was barely t
