Something Like Peace
Chapter 1
It felt like a walk of shame.
I’d never actually done the guilty-sneaking-out-of-bed-and-out-of-the-house thing, but if I had, I imagined it would feel like this. Every step was a heavy clomping of boots because I was so reluctant to make this walk. I was certain all eyes were on me. I stared at the floor in front of me as I made the journey, not wanting to catch anyone’s eye. I was in the worst kind of trouble, everyone knew it, and I didn’t want to see the sympathetic and pitying looks.
I hadn’t been given a chance to change. In fact, the steel in Vincent’s voice as he shut down the set and told me to report to the conference room in the production wing had given me chills. As much as I didn’t want to face the man, I was also determined to do it with my
