Divorced, But Not Broken
Divorced, but Not broken Chapter 78

I was staring at myself in the mirror. It had been one week since I got back and James had been helping me getting a job, I couldn't go back to the superstore and my old job was already filled by another guy named Steve. I didn't care, I knew that I had to leave "Are you ready, Andrea, I'm leaving in five and you are too!" James was shouting to the upstairs where I was and just still staring at myself. I really looked different from when I left, skinny and just pure blond, I looked like Kayla.

everything when I left, my apartment, my job, everything that was connected to me and Jonah.

My guilty conscience slamming me hard when I thought of her, she was still lost and honestly, I was wondering if she was dead, had been all along and Jonah just never had the balls to tell me that Austin just got rid of her when he was done with her. Shit! I was wiping my eyes again when the tears had already start to fall, this was not going to be a good fuckin start at the small time law firm, that was kind enough to hire me as a favour to James seeing that he was having dance classes with the guy who owned the place, f**k I didn't deserve James being so nice to me and I knew it, but what other choice did I have. I was broke and alone, so nothing had changed about that part of me staying in the same room in James house that I stayed in the last time. "Andrea!" I was walking off in the formal pants and blouse I was having on, looking somewhat professional that James had been so kind to sponsor me with, seeing that all my other clothes where lost or to big for me to wear these days. "Yeah, I'm here...." I was going down the stairs when he was dressed already in coat and boots looking at me like I was driving him insane of getting him late making me smile, he looked so cute being annoyed at me for making him be late seeing that he was a hardass.

I was stepping inside my own boots when he took out my coat and helped me getting it on making me smirk, he was annoyed and a gentleman, trying to get my a*s out the door as soon as possible it seemed.

"Thank you James." I made my smile sincere when he lost the hard frown on his face opening the door and greeting the cold that was taking a hold of us, making me burrow my face deeper into the scarf and make a small shiver, I still wasn't used to the cold after living in the heat for so long, who knew that I could miss heat so much seeing that I hated it before.

"Anytime." He made a bigger smile when I walked out and was smiling too, holding onto my purse when he locked the door and I was clutching onto his arm when we walked down the stairs, scared to fall on the steps that was going down to his yard.

He got me in first and I just took up my phone and stared at it, not that I knew why, nobody was snapping me anymore, my parents only called to complain or talk about Ryan and the only person that did call me was sitting next to me in the driver seat. We didn't say anything, just had the radio on when he was humming along making me smile and just stared at the road ahead, the snow making everything beautiful and looking brand new, just like me, reinvented.

"You want to grab lunch together later; you can tell me how it went on your first day?" James was looking at me when I was about to get out making me slightly stunned, lunch? Like a date or what?

"Its just food Andrea..." He must have seen my scared face and I looked away feeling stupid as hell... of course.... He was just keeping tabs on me; I should have known seeing that had been looking over my plate when we ate the whole week, and I knew he wasn't happy.

“Sure. Pick me up later." I tried to sound cheerful when he just nodded back seriously and I closed the door feeling even colder watching James's car take off and disappear into the street of people waling past me and traffic, just going on with their life. no matter how much I was feeling like I had stopped a long time ago.

I stared at the sign; this was it. This was the start of my new life, a life without Jonah.

It was a small office that looked like it only would have maybe three or four clients or pro-bono, even if it was actually kind of nice and fresh décor, not like the stuffy office from then early nineties I had expected.

A man looked up from a desk where he was leaning when he saw me, he smiled the instantly when our eyes met. I smiled back, slightly forced. my habit of not liking people and socializing with the was still around, nothing had changed about that part. "Andrea Wilson?" he said my full name making me just smile even more and nodded, taking the man's hand that was squeezing me a bit to hard for my liking and swept his eyes up and down at me approvingly, great so he liked my looks, good for him. "Yes, James's friend..." I trailed off when he made a grin like there was more to the story when it wasn't, me and James was just friends, but I wasn't planning on explaining myself for the guy I just met.

"Yeah, he told me about you, told me you got ambition and has a good head on you..." He was still smirking, leaning back on the desk arms crossed just seemed to be enjoying the view. Great.

"I'm Carl, Phillips." He said his name like I would recognise it and I just looked confused making him do a small, embarrassed smile like he wasn't expecting that reaction, sitting in semi expensive suit and was kind a good looking with his neat haircut and clean shaved chin.

"I'm sorry, I never heard about you if that's what you are implying?" I couldn't keep my mouth shut; he was still just staring at me like he really wanted to fuck me before breaking off his eyes from my body to my eyes where the f*****g belonged.

"Carl, what the fuck have I told you about pretending to be me when I'm not around?!" I heard a stern voice, and it was a woman when I turned shocked around seeing a middle-aged woman with a suit and slight silver in her black hair that was making a big scowl at the guy that just gave me a look like he tried and winked before walking around and sitting at his desk it seemed, I thought that he had been the boss, but that was the lady behind me.

"I'm Angela Garzón, the real employer and not that dimwit that is my employee, how the f**k I got stuck with him is a fucking mystery!" she was still scowling when he just winked and smirked back, wow, this woman didn't back down and neither was he apparently. "Yes, Hi I am..." I didn't have time to say anything more when the serious woman was looking at me making me shut up and I just stared at her in fear, shit she didn't seem like she was playing around, not like the stupid guy that was behind me just chuckling at my fear.

"Andrea Wilson, former wife of Ryan Baleen, correct?!" she sounded so angry already when I just nodded. Oh shit she knew that I used to be married to Ryan, maybe they had been competitors or something like that, I didn't get involved that much in his work life, seeing that he was having a completely different world from mine.

"Well... I'm only doing this as a favour to James so don't expect me to go around and say how pretty you are and wait for your nail polish to dry, If I fucking tell you to do something, you do it, is that fucking clear!?" I just stared at her annoyed face, omg, she was worse than James, far worse than him. no wonder that he liked spending time with her.

"You work is on your desk, if there is something important then you can bother me, otherwise, keep your nose away from my office and don't fuck Carl here at work!" she just said that before slamming her door making me do a series of offended deep breaths, what the f**k did she just say to me?!

"Don't worry, she barks worse than she bites...." Carl was looking at me like he was having fun seeing me so goddam stunned when I just sat down and stared at the screen. She didn't even show me what to do or even what my tasks was, shit she was going to be a pain in the a*s.