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I sighed and picked at my cuticles “But I don’t… I’d feel like I owed you I’d feel like even if it’s the best job in the world—”

Ta to oversell it You’ll be getting coffee and working on layouts late at night with everyone else”

“That’s what I do now at the student paper”

“And this one would be for Swagger It’s one of the top fashion ood-sized croel in Daddy’s empire Please, I wouldn’t have passed Modern Civilizations or Shakespearean Lit without you helping me brainstorm my term papers I owe you”

I sighed If I didn’t get an internship this su badly My work study job would stop in a feeeks, and although Ta to buy things like food or metro cards It wasn’t even that I distrusted Tammy No I couldn’t quite trust e of a cliff If I juain for the stuff I really needed after so long on my own, ain where I couldn’t quite stand on my oo feet It had almost killed me before

I didn’t want to go back

But I didn’t want to starve all sus outside of what I’d squirreled away for fall’s tuition Even with an instant noodle diet, I’d be feeling pretty desperate Besides, the last place I’d intervieith technically hadn’t gotten back to me, but it had been six weeks since that intervieasn’t exactly holdingbreaks there either

Ta to hone your life Iyou back You don’t feel like I’ my connections?”

I stood up and placed my hands on my hips “It’s me I don’t trust I always pro with nepotiset there the honest way”

“Like I said, you’re getting coffee and being an editorial assistant, not writing front page pieces with huge bylines Besides, I can get you the intervieith Daddy He’s the one who et you in today, he will make that call It’s still all up to you to impress him”

“Yeah, but…” I stopped and gaped at her “What did you just say?”

“Um, that you could impress him today”

“When? It’s already noon” I glanced at the clock by the kitchen

“Well, Dad and I have lunch scheduled at one We get a cab, and we can book over there I can do Thai with Daddy any tiet your chance to interviehenever”

I ran a hand throughto look nice for the surprise birthdaywith Kevin Still, I’d just had the worst shock of my life My sneakers still had cake cru I felt up to alking into the interview of a lifetiest publishers on the planet when I could barely think straight