“Hey!” Pamela poked her head through the door to Ashley’s office. “Your step-mother is on line five.” She informed her.

Ashley lifted her head from the file she had been reading, glanced up at Pamela and then at the desk phone.

She had been alternating between visiting her father and going to work. She spent weekdays at the office, playing catch up on work and weekends with her father.

It was hard but she was getting by and adjusting to it. But she just couldn't adjust to the ...