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, I showed up on time at the Sunny Day Café the next mornin

brewed coffee, and wiped down t

coworkers and some of the regu

their eyes darting toward me

ideo. In a town this small, go

see, not to hear. I

id Hayes, called me over. "Ever, can yo

his office, he looked deeply uncomforta

toward me. It was an

m I had maliciously attacked and harassed a member of the Beaumont fami

Kensington family would have to "re-evaluate" the

ness. The Kensingtons were a powerful pack and major cl

of apology. "You're a great employee, I know th

ip, but I never imagined Scarlett would be so c

ied to keep my voice from trembling. "Tha

ing and slightly smug looks of my coworke

ht, but I felt a

e gently that business was slow and they

saying some parents were "concerned" my "persona

's power, had effortlessly

at could be crushed without a second thought. The other business owners, all normal people, we

from my now-nonexistent jobs. The café apron, the baker's hat,

yed. Complete

bank account. I knew the pathetic amount in

feeling trapped in an invisible net

deserve this? Why were

ears wouldn't come. Only a

n, my ph

the h

and a terror I had never known seized my heart. I was too sc