How they can impact us even when an event didn’t exactly occur in our own lives. How they mark people who don’t even know us. And I wonder, as our eyes meet, if the next story I have to tell in my life is the one of her firing me. So it’s with dread and an impending sense of loss that I sit here and wait for Helen to finally lower that folder and look at me. I have never wanted to be anything else other than what I am now, at this moment, as my fate rests in her hands. I have rent, I’m still paying off my college loan, and I have a mother I love with a health condition and no insurance. Even: I will work for free until we can find our feet. I sit silently, a thousand things leaping to my tongue: I can do better I can do more let me do more, two articles a week rather than one. Without even looking up from the folder in her hand, Helen signals to the chair across hers. Three steps inside the cluttered room stacked with old magazines, ours and our competitors’, and my breakfast-coffee with two sugars, and strawberry jam on whole-wheat toast-turns into a stone inside my stomach. Edge, the magazine I have written for and loved since I graduated from college, is hanging by a thread. It isn’t really my boss’s job to fire me. I walked into Helen’s office this morning certain she was going to fire me. We never see it coming until we catch fire. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Gallery Books and Simon & Schuster. Thank you for downloading this Gallery Books eBook. Why was I not told I’d need one of those walk-in freezers while reading this book? Apart from being one of my most scorching reads of the year, the ‘realness’ of the love story took me totally off guard, and held me captive until the very last word.” “What a rare gift for an author to be able to actually wrap her arms around her readers and hold them. “Smoking hot and completely mind-blowing.” “Saturated with palpable tension and incendiary sex, this tale packs an emotional wallop.” She makes you FEEL every single word you read.” Praise for New York Times bestselling author
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