Celeste

When I looked up, Mina was still there, still smirking at me.

“I thought you were going to report me to your mommy,” she said mockingly. “Tell her all about the mean woman at work making you do your job. But you didn’t, did you? I wonder why that is.”

I wanted to scream at her, to tell her to go to hell, to quit this awful job and never look back. But I couldn’t. If I got fired before completing my mother’s “mission,” the consequences would be... I didn’t even want ...