Chapter 23. The Interview

Layla’s POV

I looked around the room anxiously as my hands began to shake.

Just then, something snapped in me.

I wasn’t there to look pretty.

I was there to prove that I could do the job.

That I was skilled enough for them to pick me.

That I was worth being chosen.

If I let my nerves take over, my whole reinventing plan would flop, and it hadn’t even started.

I looked around the room and saw several seats.

Determined to calm down, I walked over to one of them and sat down, relaxing my body and my nerves.

I closed my eyes took deep breaths, and kept on repeating in my mind.

‘I can do this. I am strong. If I don’t do this, Orion and Grace are going to get away, and there will be nothing I can do.’

The last sentence worked like a charm. Immediately, those words came to me, and I envisioned that my hands would stop shaking. My anxiety had disappeared, only anger remaining.

But that wasn’t going to do as