Setting the Terms

"What's up, Mrs. Ashford?" I asked, my voice even icier than before. Knowing she was scheming to get her sister to steal my position just made me even frostier toward her.

I didn't go looking for trouble, but that didn't mean I'd let anyone walk all over me.

Miriam used to act all friendly with me, but that was never because she was genuinely kind; it was just that I never got in her way.

And as a