MY OWN PRIDE

TERESA

My fingers’ knots had whitened from how tightly I held the phone in my hand. This man just made me lose absolutely everything, even control over my life. My job was all I had left in this world.

I had been walking alone since forever. I never knew my parents. My past was a mystery to me, and I had little knowledge of it. All I remembered was that I had a terrible water phobia.

And for this very reason, I could not say that I was not grateful to this man for saving me from certain death. Sebastian Gallagher, that was the name of the one who left me without a job, in the middle of a society where demand was greater than supply.

Not having a stable income, it could leave me without the small apartment I lived in. All I had left was probably my best friend Caroline, who still extended a helping hand to me many times. She even helped me find where this man who seemed to know them all worked.

Right now, she was standing right in front of me in my little apartment and gesturing to