Once I step inside, I’m apprehensive once I observe how small and cramped it’s, particularly once I see the workplace chair behind the desk is empty. I used to be anticipating to fulfill Harold, the supervisor who had referred to as and supplied me the job.

“Sit down, Dolly.” Matt motions to a chair to the facet as he closes the workplace door and takes the empty one behind the desk.

“Um, the place is Harold?” I shift on my ft, wishing he’d left the door open, however sit as instructed when he pulls just a few papers out of the desk drawer and passes them to me.

“Harold needed to step out to run dwelling for a couple of minutes, however he stated I can end this up with you. Fill these out, after which we will select your uniform.”

I ignore the best way he appears to be like me up and down as I fill out the W2 paperwork so I can receives a commission. Matt goes over how a lot I’ll be making per hour, and I balk as a result of, holy shit, it’s loads lower than I used to be anticipating.

“Don’t fear, sweetheart. $2.13 an hour is simply the bottom pay. You’re a beautiful woman, and also you’ll be making ideas hand over first quickly sufficient. Simply gotta give the oldsters an enormous smile. Go on, present me how massive you possibly can smile.”

I used to be already nervous being in right here alone with him with the door closed, however his slimy eyes and phrases are actually beginning to freak me out.

Possibly this was a mistake…

No, I’m an enormous woman now, and I would like to do that. I would like the work expertise, even when I don’t find yourself working right here for lengthy—which I most likely received’t if I’ve to cope with him every single day. I have to know I can maintain myself and that I don’t need to depend on Wyatt like Mother is reliant on Dad.

The considered Mother steels my resolve, although disappointment sweeps via me on the reminder that I left her, who, for all her faults, nonetheless liked me. Matt faucets the desk impatiently, and I put ideas of her apart for now. I smile as massive as I can, hoping it doesn’t look as faux because it feels.

Matt eats it up and says, “There you go. That’s what the purchasers need to see.”

Gross.

He stands to open a tall metallic cupboard within the nook and pulls out just a few of the pink and white uniform clothes. “Get up so I can see what measurement you want.”

I do, and he involves a cease too shut, holding every costume up, eye-balling whether or not or not he thinks it’ll match me as a substitute of asking what measurement I’m—or higher but, letting me look via them myself. I can odor the espresso he will need to have been ingesting earlier and really feel his breath on my face, and I begin to panic once I understand he’s maneuvered himself between me and the workplace door.

“Right here we go. I believe that is the one. How about you strive it on for me so I can ensure it matches?” His voice is husky as he holds up a costume that appears means too small and presses the again of his hand in opposition to my breast.

My abdomen churns, and I need to vomit on the considered making an attempt on something for him. Tears are prickling the corners of my eyes as he shifts nearer, forcing me flat again in opposition to the wall behind me. I’m nearly to say screw it to the job and shove him away when Wyatt bursts via the door.

“What the hell is taking so lengthy, child—” Wyatt takes one have a look at the tears in my eyes, and I swear to god, it’s like insanity washes over him. His heat brown eyes darken, and a vein on the facet of his neck bulges as he fists his giant fingers.

It’s Matt’s flip to panic when he turns his head on the sound of Wyatt’s voice. He takes a hasty step away from me, his slimy smile dropping as his eyes go vast in worry.

“You weaselly piece of shit!” It solely takes Wyatt one giant step to cross the workplace earlier than he has the entrance of Matt’s white uniform shirt tangled up in one in every of his fists, and he slams Matt’s again in opposition to the metallic cupboard. “What the fuck do you assume you’re doing?”

Matt sputters out, “N-Nothing, I wasn’t doing nothing, man.”

Wyatt pulls him away from the cupboard and slams him again in opposition to it. “It certain as shit didn’t seem like ‘nothing’ to me!” Wyatt turns to me, his face softening a fraction as I wipe the tears from my eyes. “Did he harm you, babygirl? Did he lay a finger on you?”

“Um…” I don’t know what I ought to say. I don’t need to lie, however I additionally don’t need Wyatt to harm him. Matt is a weaselly piece of shit, and he did contact me, however I don’t need the cops to get referred to as if Wyatt does something to him.

I’m saved from having to reply when an older man with a head filled with salt and pepper hair walks via the door and involves an abrupt halt. “What the hell is happening right here, Wyatt?” The fellows flip their heads towards the person standing within the doorway, who’s adopted in by Faye and one other waitress I haven’t met but.

“Harold, assist m—” Matt’s plea for assistance is minimize off when Wyatt shoves him again in opposition to the cupboard once more.

Ahhh, so that is the boss. I’m for certain not getting the job now, not when my—boyfriend? fiancé?—is about to beat up one in every of his staff.

“This scumbag,” Wyatt solutions, shaking Matt like a rag doll now, “had my girl backed in opposition to the wall. Fairly certain he was feeling her up, making her cry.”

Harold snaps his consideration to me, taking me in, although not within the creepy means Matt did. He takes inventory of my tear-streaked face and asks, “That true, Miss…?”

“Dolly, and sure, he…he…” However I can’t say it when Wyatt appears to be like like he’s on the verge of tearing Matt to items.

The waitress, whose title I don’t know, pipes up, her murderous glare locked on Matt. “He used to do this shit to me, too, Harold, ‘til I threatened to run him over within the car parking zone. Does it to all the women, proper, Faye?” Faye squeaks out a sure, and the waitress goes on. “He’s all the time touching the waitresses and groping their asses at any time when he walks by.”

Harold’s face and thick neck have gone crimson, and if appears to be like might kill, Matt can be useless thrice over by now. “Why within the hell has nobody informed me prior to now?” Harold cuts his eyes to Faye, his expression softening for her as Wyatt’s did for me. “Why didn’t you inform me, Faye?”

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