All of my emotions ran through me in a whirlwind as I strode away from Knox Blackwell. I clutched five hundred dollars in one hand and my pair of high heels in the other. I felt dizzy.
I glanced at the time as I got into the elevator. It was nearly nine o’clock. s**t. I was going to be late for my second job. I had five minutes. Steph’s place was already five minutes away, and the bar was in the opposite direction. By the time I changed—
I couldn’t change. I would have to sprint to my new job in these clothes and pray that they didn’t care. Heck, maybe they’d be all about skimpy dresses. When I went in for the interview, the place looked seedy as a strip club.
The elevator plunged down, and I watched the lights of the city rise up around me. Rain pattered softly on the glass, and
