Total pages in book: 62
Estimated words: 57623 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 288(@200wpm)___ 230(@250wpm)___ 192(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 57623 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 288(@200wpm)___ 230(@250wpm)___ 192(@300wpm)
“Not this time,” she says. “This time, you get what is coming to you. Nothing is going to stand in the way of you being punished by the both of us.”
Trembling in Laura’s grip, Storm prays to whatever deity watches over the reckless and badly behaved. That force seems to have abandoned her for the moment. Laura has her, and judging by the pair of high heels coming toward her, Jane is about to have her too.
Laura and Storm both look up to see Miss Strict standing over them with a composed, yet shell-shocked expression.
Something is wrong. Storm knows it. She’s never seen that kind of seriousness on Jane’s face before. For once, this is nothing about her. She stops fighting and goes curiously limp. Laura keeps a hand on the back of her neck, but sits up, running a hand through her hair to push blonde strands out of her face.
“What’s wrong?” Laura asks the question on Storm’s mind.
Jane looks at the pair of them, not seeming to mind the improper scuffle on the floor, a most unladylike display if ever there was one.
“My employment was just terminated,” she says.
“What?” Laura and Storm ask the question in one voice.
“Kiera’s father, Baron Marlin, arrived this morning and petitioned Frau Lotte to have me removed from my position as disciplinarian. She has seen fit to do so…”
Jane pauses a moment before enunciating the worst news Storm has ever heard.
“I’ve been fired.”