Chapter 35 I don't want you here

(I don't want you here)

Kathleen shrugged lightly as she sipped her piping hot tea, ‘You know what? I actually don't blame him this time'.

‘What??'. Gloria asked her best friend from the kitchen as she was just about to marinate a couple of chicken breasts for dinner.

Kathleen shrugged again, ‘I'm talking about my boss. I actually don't blame him this time for losing my job. It was my fault, I went against company's policy and lied about my record'.

‘Well it's a stupid record', Gloria grunted as she cut the chicken into smaller pieces, ‘It's highly discriminatory and if he knew the full story you wouldn't have lost that job of yours'.

Kathleen chuckled, ‘You're just saying that to make me feel better'.

She didn't feel better in any form, in fact she felt worse. She'd just woken up from a five hour slumber after crying her eyes out from losing her job, she felt like crap not because she lied about her criminal past—she cried because she felt judged, she saw the disdainful glare in Gray