Chapter 5

With these credentials, I’ll be frank with you, Miss Knowles—we don’t have a position for you here.”

 

The recruiter barely glanced at me as she slid my résumé back across the desk.

 

“You might want to try applying for blue-collar work,” she continued briskly. “Janitorial services. Kitchen assistant positions.”

 

I swallowed, my fingers tightening around the thin paper.