#Chapter 190: Burned To The Ground

Miles offers to let me go home early, but I refuse. I’ve had too many setbacks already, so many almost exclusively handed to me by Edward Zimmer. I’m not going to let him win by cowering any longer. It’s past time that I start advocating for myself. After righting myself in the chair, and assuring Miles I’m okay enough for him to leave me be for a time, I call Hugo and arrange for a meeting. At lunch, I find myself sitting at a table with him and Kimberly. Miles wanted to come, but I told him it would draw too much of a scene. Besides, with Hugo and Kimberly, we were old co-workers and friends catching up. “Miles told me the orphanage burned down,” I say, after our greetings and finished. “He said the truth,” Hugo says. “I went to see the sight for myself. There’s barely any debris left now. The community turned it into a public garden. I think they grow vegetables there.” It makes me feel good, knowing that something so terrible was no being used for something so good. Feedi