“I imagine they’re hoping I’ll go back to where I came from.”
“Aren’t you originally from here, though?”
I was surprised she knew that, not that it was a secret.It was easy information to come by, but that would mean that she’d done her research on me.It pleased me to imagine it.
“Anyway, fuck ‘em,” she said, delightfully succinct, as always.“They should be glad that you’re the one who has to deal with me.God knows most of them wouldn’t hire me if I was a free agent.”
What a disgusting thought.That someone of Tiffany’s talent and caliber would have a hard time getting work elsewhere for no other reason than the idiocy of the Pierce and the apparent cowardice of everyone else there.
“They would be lucky to have you, and they know it.You’re worth more than all of them put together.”
She blinked, speechless, and I was all too aware of the short distance between us.This was dangerous territory I was treading, but oh, it was the most alive I’d felt since I’d come home.
