Chapter 202

On the hook
She looked at the clock and swore it hadn’t moved all day. It probably didn’t help that she had just checked it less than a minute ago but that was beside the point. She wanted to go home. In truth, she had never wanted to be there. Well, not until Nathan had made an offer she was finding most difficult to refuse.
It was difficult to feel any kind of attractive when working around fast food vats of hot oil and heating lamps that hovered over heavily battered chicken and fish and, if it weren’t for her natural sense of curiosity she probably wouldn’t have given it a second thought as the clock ticked painfully slow. With a heavy sigh she looked again, shifted in her stance against the counter, and even dared to look at Nathan with a blushing smile.