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While everyone around her had moved with the times and used alternatives to taking a pill every single day, She hadn’t had much luck with some methods, and she feared others. And so she faithfully took her pill.

By the time she was finished with the doctor’s visit, she was weary and emotionally drained from the stress of the day. Oddly enough, he hadn’t ordered her in to work the next day. Instead he’d instructed her to take the day off and rest, almost as if he’d known how fried she’d be after the eventful day.

Grateful to have at least one day to ponder the arrangement she’d agreed to, she rode home in the car Gabe had assigned to her. The driver had been given instructions to pick her up for work the day after next. The driver left her his card with instructions that if she needed transportation at any time, she was to call him. And he hadn’t spoken a word to her since the somewhat curt introduction and his shoving his card at her.

Already it felt as though he was taking over her