Chapter 10

I had also made a plan that I would just need to do that one job, 24k would be more than enough to set me back up on my feet, especially now I was working and had money coming in. At least that was the plan, Jake had been acting more and more odd lately, he even came into the filling room after I had finished my call something he has never done before.

‘Stephanie is this where you have been hiding, get back to your desk,’ he orders as he storms in and out of the filling room, making me leap out of my skin.

Ever since then I feel like he knows something, whenever I look up, I catch him looking at me or he averts his gaze as soon as I do. Did he hear the phone call with Carter? I feel even more on edge now feeling as if I’ve been found out before I have even done anything wrong.

He also hasn’t let me out of his sight, as soon as I returned to my desk he called me into his office, where I have been buried in paperwork ever since over his ever-watchful eye. I don’t think he has ever paid