It changes lives.
As it changed mine when I was a teenager.
I do love my job.
“I can’t wait to show Brittany,” Trinity says, grabbing her bags and chatting away as we walk down the hall.“She got hers off ages ago.So unfair.”
When I open the door to the waiting room, her dad has gone.He said he’d be waiting for her, but in the past he’s shown his work is his priority, taking calls and disappearing.
“Amy, where—?”
“Mr.Whitebrook paid up and then got a call.He said he would be back soon,” Amy replies, twisting back and forth on her office chair.
Which means he won’t be.
Trinity rolls her eyes.“It’s fine.Dad’s always on his phone.I’ll find him.”
God, no.
After what happened with Louisa, I’m not letting her leave this office alone.
“Wait here a minute,” I tell her after glancing out into the hall and not seeing him.“I’ll go with you.”
“Honestly, it’s fine.”Trinity says, hating the fuss as teenagers do.
“Don’t let her leave,” I tell Amy, and dart out to get my phone.I’m back in less than a minute, then lead her out the door.“Let’s find your dad, Trinity.”
I pop my head into the stairwell and can’t see or hear him, so we wait in the hallway for a few minutes by the elevators when we see one heading to our floor.
It’s not him.
I punch the button, and we catch the next one.
“He’s probably downstairs.He hates people listening to his conversations.How can insurance be so secretive?”
I have a few thoughts on that matter but keep them to myself.
“Privacy, no doubt.”
“Oh yeah,” Trinity checks her smile in the glass and then blushes when she realizes I’ve seen her.
“They look good.”
“It felt like forever.I was so over them.”
“We hear that a lot.”I laugh.
I quickly glance at my phone and slip it into my back pocket, tugging my lab coat down over it.
“I honestly don’t mind waiting for him in the lobby downstairs if you have to go.”
“I need the fresh air.This gets me out of the office.”I wink.“You’ll understand one day when you have a job.”
“Oh, god no.I’m going to be a landscaper so I can work outside,” she announces.
The elevator stops, and we step out as Trinity shares more about her love of gardening.I make all the right noises as I seek out her father.
Where the fuck is he?
