Chapter 13

AMELIA

"Amelia, are you sure you can take over the store?" Larry looks at me with a solemn expression on his face. "I would be gone the entire afternoon, and you know afternoons are the busiest times of the day."

I nod.

"Oh, no worries!" I give him a soft smile. "You can trust me. I'll look after everything."

I'm not sure how earnestly I've made it sound to him. He's not entirely wrong. The busiest time starts when the afternoon ends and the early evening rolls in, and also that his newly hired substitute would be filling in, then it should be child's play. I have plans to make him accomplish all the work.

Why will I not?

Larry has made me responsible for doing all of his work while he loves to sit on his ass, complaining and ordering me around.

Why can't I do the same?

Be as bad as he is when it comes to people I work with and handle?

There is a niggling voice in my head that I would never be as bad as he is to me and the others who work here.

Sure, I might ask the new pers