Page 1 of Breaking Point
Chapter 1
Bella
Bella
Kill me now
Layla
Slow and painful or quick and fast?
Bella
I’ve been summoned into Jason’s office
Layla
Quick and fast it is
“You’re fired.”
Jason leans back in his desk chair, not bothering to hide the glint in his gaze.
As if he isn’t blindsiding me. As if he isn’t killing my mother.
“You understand, right? The higher-ups were a little too excited hiring during 2020.” His gaze turns quizzical after my prolonged silence. “Jesus, Isabella, you’re not seriously shocked, are you?”
It’s Bella, not Isabella, you preposterous twat.I feel like shouting at the bastard but after correcting him for three years I doubt the sentiment will get through histhick skull now.
And no, I’m not the least bit shocked.
Not because I’m a bad employee. I’m far from it.
I’m punctual to a fault, catch mistakes before they can cause irreparable damage, have taken on two colleague’s workloads over the past eight months, and to top it all off, when Steve from accounting tried to shove his hand up my skirt at the Christmas office party, I didn’t knee him in the balls and call the police like I had initially wanted to.
I have made myself small. So incredibly small over the past three years that I’m surprised Jason can even see me.
Granted, his eyes have barely left my cleavage.
Why am I not shocked? Why do I even stay, all things considered? Unfortunately, I ask myself the same questions every time I walk through the front door of this shithole.
Two uncomfortable truths have stopped me from walking.
I need the money—desperately.
It pains me to admit but Jason isn’t wrong.
Far too many employees were hired in 2020, and their jobs have been made redundant over the past three years. That’s not even mentioning the rise of AI taking over people’s jobs.
No one is hiring.
