AN UNWANTED GUEST

One month later

It was time to go back to work. And I liked being at the Bali Hotel doing my job. I also really valued my coworkers—except Dominic, my boss and ex-boyfriend.

As for getting rid of the things that were hurting me in life… that didn’t happen. Sometimes I compared myself to a lab rat—one trapped with no purpose except to suffer for some greater good it would never see. They could open the cage doors, but I still didn’t have the courage to escape the ...