The Rulers (Heartless Kingdom #0.5) by K.I. Lynn

Author:K.I. Lynn [Lynn, K.I.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781393781066
Publisher: ​K.I. Lynn
Published: 2021-04-25T23:00:00+00:00

After a stop at the grocery, a train transfer, and a bus transfer, I was finally home. It seemed like half my day was spent commuting into and out of Manhattan, but there wasn’t much I could do about it. The tips I made at 130 Degrees couldn’t compare to anything near me, and until I figured out what I wanted to do with my life, I was stuck with the horrid routine.

I shuffled into my studio apartment and dropped my bags of clothes on the ground before moving to the kitchen. I pulled at the refrigerator door handle and cursed when it slammed into the oven and bounced back shut.

“Shit.”

I opened the door a little more gently and slid the half-gallon of milk and sandwich fixings in, then let it close. The counter was already cluttered, but by counter, I meant the six inches that surrounded the sink. It was a joke of a kitchen, but so were rent prices.

As much as it sucked, I really couldn’t complain much. At least I wasn’t still living with my mom and my stepdad, Lou. From the moment he came into my life, I disliked him. He brought out the worst in my mother. They were shit parents to the two girls they had together. I hated to leave Brooke and Andrea with them, but I had to get away from being afraid of a man who would smack me for the simple fact that I wasn’t his child. That my mother dared have a child before he met her.

Away from the mother who blamed me for “provoking” him.

I was out of there the second I graduated from high school. I spent the summer on friends’ couches while I worked, and then when college started, I lived in the dorms. Thankfully, I was able to stay there over the summer as well, giving me no reason to return home.

By the time I graduated, I was over three hundred thousand dollars in debt.

For undergrad.

It was unreal.

Thankfully, I was able to get a well-paying job right out of school, making a hundred grand my first year. I had a decent apartment, could go out with friends like Jennifer, save for the first time in my life, and live a decent, miserable life.

It didn’t take long to realize I didn’t have the personality for it. I hated being a pharmaceutical sales representative. I hated being the salesperson pushing something I wasn’t even entirely sure I could agree with, let alone put into my body.

I also didn’t care for the person I was becoming. Being that kind of salesperson colored my soul.

After eleven months and four days, I quit. Gave up my great apartment and moved into a cheaper place back in my old neighborhood.

I liked the lab work of biology and chemistry, the science side of my degree, but I applied to dozens of clinical lab technician positions in various fields that never led to any offers. In all that, I found I could use my knowledge with food, which was the beginning of my matching and pairing of different items.

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