"We don't need the likes of you around here anymore," Frost, her past boss, said, pulling up to the office. "Whatever dirty call you just made, you'd better hope it wasn't a fortune or we're billing you."

"You've got me totally mistaken," she replied.

"No, I don't. You're a whore once, always a whore. I know what I saw, and you didn't fall far from your parents at all."

She would not let them see how much their words hurt.

Don't be soft.

Keep your chin up.

Walking past Frost, she dodged the ...