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He glanced atbecause I don’t look the part, right?”

“Well, not that you have to look a certain way”

“But e, or like they’ve just been released froain and added, “For the record, I haven’t been to jail But I kno I come across”

“I like the fact that you break the stereotypes”

He grinned as he started on another nail “Way to put a positive spin on it”

I grinned too and said, “I try So, what got you into this career?”

“A friend, in a roundabout way It’s kind of a depressing story, so you probably don’t want to hear it”

“Sure I do, if you’re willing to tell me”

He glanced at ain and said, “When I was nineteen, s and involved with an abusive psychopath who called himself my Dom, but he was actually just a sadistic asshole I was too naïve and too messed up to know the difference, and I’ el

“He was a submissive to this same ‘Dom’, and he was a heroin addict like me His life was as th to save me I wasn’t allowed to leave this el I had faave ot me into rehab, and I was able to turn my life around”

Riley tried to s what any of that has to do with this job, but I’m about to circle back around to it After I left rehab, I was trying to figure out what to do with y school that was offering scholarships It el, because he loved makeup Sometimes to cheer ht seem random, but it was all he had with him at our so-called Dom’s house, and the only way he had to try to takehell ly withhis o into this field”

I asked, “What happened to him?”

“I have no idea”

“You didn’t stay in touch?”