KAYLEE
Ten… Nine… Eight… Seven… Three. No. I shook my head. That wasn’t right but I had no desire to try that again. Whoever suggested that counting backward in your head helped calm your emotions was stupid, I decided right there and then.
Nothing could calm me. I gave my head another shake as though that would somehow change the narrative in front of me. It didn't. Of course, it didn’t. I was still in the same uncomfortable chair, sweating buckets because it seemed the air conditioning unit had picked this very moment to stop doing its job.
The Manager's office was nothing fancy. It had all the regular furnishings one would find in an office of any administrative worker, a large leather chair worshiped like a throne, overcrowded desk and filing cabinets. In short, it was simple and bo
