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A condescending smile blossoms on her face when she continues to speak.
“To be quite frank with you, I’m not sure Cassidyisa good fit for your needs.”
“What makes you say that?” I want to know, my interest piqued.
Miss Barry shifts in her seat, visibly uncomfortable as she bites her lower lip and evades my eyes while needlessly sorting the papers on the table.
“I know you said you were interested in a well-educated girl, one who knows how to conduct herself and contribute to a more refined conversation,” she says. “All of the girls in our database hold a college degree and come from good families.”
“She passed your background check, didn’t she?” I inquire. “She’s not a criminal or an addict or anything like that.”
“Of course not!” Miss Barry appears revolted at the idea, raising her hands in defense, as if I’d just threatened to attack her. “There’s nothing wrong with her,per se. It’s just that…”
She pauses again while her strained gaze journeys through the room as if the right words were written somewhere on the walls.
“Let’s just say she didn’t have the best upbringing and her background is not quite up to the standard we usually apply,” she says eventually. “I made an exception when I hired her.”
Worry shadows her face when she looks at me now, her shoulders tense and her expression cautious as she awaits my reaction. But I don’t give her anything to work with. What she just told me doesn’t change anything.
“She grew up in foster care,” she goes on. “Didn’t even finish High School, but recently obtained her GED, so—”
“I don’t know why any of this should matter?” I interject. “I’m not hiring her for a position in middle management.”
She releases a polite chuckle.
“Yes, of course,” she admits. “It’s just that… if you’re asking for a girl who knows how to conduct herself among the upper class, I’m not sure she’s the right fit for that. I’ve had to have an extra eye on her, because we’ve run into some trouble since the club opened. She can be a little challenging sometimes.”
Perfect.
This girl becomes more and more interesting.
“Well, I like a good challenge,” I tell her. “And I know what I want.”
Miss Barry shakes her head. “I’m not sure about—”
“Why don’t you let me be the judge of that,” I suggest. “Just tell Cassidy I want to talk to her in private,and we’ll go from there.”
I get up from my seat, before I add: “Besides, she still has my suit jacket from that night. I’d like to get that back—in person.”
Miss Barry responds with a silent nod, looking anything but happy about anyofthis.
I couldn’t care less. Kat is the missing piece to my plan, I’m sure of it.
She just needs to be desperate enough to say yes.
Chapter 10
Kat
“I’ll go check for him outside,” Miss Barry says, as she rises from her seat. “He should be here any minute.”
“O-okay,” I utter, and my fingers clench around the folded suit jacket in my lap.
She sends me a polite smile, before she strides to the door, seemingly floating on her ridiculously high heels without wavering once.
The door closes and I’m left alone in her office, nervously shifting on my seat as I cross and uncross my legs repeatedly. All Miss Barry told mewasthat the young gentleman who helped me to get out of the club that night wanted to see me—but she didn’t tell me why.
This must be about his jacket. I mean, what else could he possibly want from me?
