A Paranoid Apology

After leaving the café, Vanessa was already frightened and on edge.

As she walked down the street, she kept feeling that everyone knew what a deplorable person she was. There was no sight of the haughty attitude she usually had.

She drove to the subsidiary of Prescott Corporation in Aldenor.

Everyone in the company was reverent and respectful when they saw Vanessa, for fear that one would be in tr