CHAPTER 67: SAVING GRACE

Bloom stared at her phone in mortification. He was still as cruel as he was 13 years ago. It was over, this is the end. Since her father wouldn’t help, she might as well go to work on her off day and see if she can find any vacancies. She stared at herself in the mirror hours later. Her eyes looked sunken, her lips were chapped because her cheap lip balm had to be applied every five minutes, making it run out just before the month end. Her cheeks looked like they’d gone inside, her eyes were dull and dead. No wonder her boss at the restaurant had been adamant that she wears a nose mask. She was too skinny but that didn’t mean she could take on to more jobs. ‘At this rate, you’ll break and nothing will be left.’ The voice in her head spoke up. People always looked at her like she was mad but years of loneliness would do that to you. Imaginary friends that you could only hear, she tries to make it less obvious in public but it’s just sweeter when all the conversations t