Chapter 18

“Pfff” Emma sighed as she put her notes aside and watched the last rays of sunlight slowly disappear through the huge glass windows, her fingers tapped on the wood of the counter, she was anxious, or rather, nervous.

She looked at the time on the clock on the wall behind her; it was seven o’clock at night, and her day was over; despite being a job that consumed several hours of the day, it was no big deal what she had to do, the pay was too good to refuse, and it was worth the time. Besides, she could always take a day off apart from weekends.

The problem that had been haunting her mind all day had been a kind of dilemma and crucial doubt “Did she still have her job?” Emma, after half an hour of being locked in the locker room, had gone out to face the world with her head held high; no one said anything about what had happened, although she could feel the gaze of her colleagues on her at all times. She also waited for t