COLLINS MORGAN

KAREN

I heard voices and forced my eyes open.

“She is finally awake,” Lily said, shaking her head. "I'm off to school. Bye auntie Tina!”

“Bye Lily dear. Have a nice day at school!”

Still trying to sort the millions of scenes and words playing in my head, Tina came over to the bed.

“How long did you cry? I found you in some bar. Hell, Your eyes were damn swollen and puffy and the bar woman was on the verge of locking you out.”

“What happened?” I asked as I began to push myself up. “Ouch…shit..” I groaned, feeling my head bang.

“Easy now.” Tina lent me a hand until I steadied on my feet.

I walked to the kitchen and downed a bottle of water. Crushing the bottle in my palms, I threw it into the trash can.

“It's this about your billionaire chairman boyfriend? what happened this time?”

I sighed as the memories of last night filtered through my head.

“Nothing,” I said, forcing a hard gulp.

“Nothing and what is this?” She waved my reassignment letter. “You have been reassigned to the c