*Seraphina*

“You seriously expect me to hire a jailbird? What do you take this company for, Miss Lovelace? A joke?”

I clenched my fists as the interviewer’s cruel words replayed again and again in my head as I walked out of the building. It’d been awful. Humiliating. I knew from before that it wouldn’t be easy to try and find a decent job after my stint in prison. As though my lack of degree wasn’t enough, people made so many assumptions ...