could breathe fire, smoke would have been spilling from her nostrils right at that mo

was getting from the people moving

tered to herself, trying to calm her

wly, biting her bottom lips to keep in the s

dn't been so damn tough for them, she wouldn't have been out here

se girl? Was the desperation

ions. As at then, Aurora had assumed he was assessing her, trying to figure out her persona or something,

n. The door opened and she stepped in absentminde

r as she stepped into the glass elevato

back, hitting her elbo

. The man's shirt was stained with

his stoic face, but there was something in his

a I'd be seeing anyone here." She

y pissed. "For fuck sake this is a public place and you

s office was forgotten. She wished she had been calmer. It

uised ego and an angry man that wanted

at....I

sed her. A mocking smirk tipped the edge of his

on the floor. The remaining liquid splashed on her feet. She looked down, t

he other end, five feet away f

on't like being drenche

wallowed and looked away, praying for the elevator to

he blinking light. Maybe she should have used the s

obvious she wasn't going to work here, so ther

alming her mouth when the man

shirt." He said like he was talking to a child and no

anted to tell him to go fuck himself. Looking a

hand, silencing her. Aurora's eyes spotted the gold Rolex on hi

on her about spilling coffee on him 'by mistake

ze drifted to her breast. The blouse had caused her perky ti

orning episode with the loan shark flashed through her

ed to crouch down on the floor an

ght she had wished she wasn't born, nights she contemplated suicide and then there was a day she

and for the first time since the death of her father two years ago, she had danced around the house. She ha

h nothing but a crushed ego and a man that was threatenin

cking his hands into his pants pocket. He was tall, 6

d of curly blonde hair behind her ear, then intertwined her fingers, "I can't afford a new shirt right now" she glanced up,

ked away when his g

w job... okay, almost new job gone, she had to go back to waitress

ing about not expecting to see another being in an elevator, I thou

orrectly, I didn't give you that

e shook his head. "I see you h

to be pushed into a corner. She just wanted to go home, show

e you a week even. A day

He was

nd muttered a mantra she had conceived ov

have bills to pay, I have two siblings to take care of... a mom that is aging by the

o attempt to brush it off. Sh

ak, the elevator started juddering. Aurora swall

d her siblings. She remembered the surging hope in her mother's

't die... n

h each shaky breath, h

en her eyes to see what he was doing as th

eople below had notic

..plea

o some lady. Life was still going on but Auror

die. Fear scream

distraction. Come on! Her heart kicked into high gear. Th

ith broken glasses sticking out from her skin sp

to think of something to hold her afloat in the d

going