JADE

The office was quiet on a Friday as if everyone had decided to start the weekend early. I’d also wanted to take some time off, but I couldn’t with the thin ice I was on. If anything went wrong with Hannah now, I would be out of a job. I couldn’t afford that yet. I wasn’t ready to start anything on my own, and I lived paycheck to paycheck.

My inability to manage my finances was something else I had to take care of as soon as possible, but I wasn’t going to figure ...