Chapter 59

Sienna

I stood by the mirror, adjusting the collar of the blouse I had chosen, trying to ignore the sinking feeling in my stomach. The feeling that told me that something was going to happen, that’s something that was not going to go as I planned for it to be, but I knew that this thunderstorm was going to erupt the second that I chose to accept the job.

This was the first day of my new job, the one I had originally considered turning down, the one I had tried to convince myself wasn’t necessary.

But I needed this.

No matter how hard they were going to try and convince me that I did not need it, I did, and I needed it on my own terms.

I needed something that was mine, something outside this suffocating house, outside the weight of Damon Lockwood’s name.

I knew that he would tell me that there was the job that Ethan was offering me, there was the job that he managed to get for me, the flexible one with a high pay, but I was not going to acce