The Sheridan Group offered great employee benefits, even for interns.
There was a fifteen-day annual leave, and Nancy Hughes bought a ticket, preparing to go back to her hometown.
She hadn't been back home since she left.
If her mother hadn't begged her to come back on the phone this time, she really wouldn't have wanted to go.
That house could be anyone's home, but it could never be hers.
Her home had vanished the day her mother remarried.
Nancy Hughes's hometown was in a small, rural village up north.
There were no high-speed rails, no bullet trains, no modern, bustling skyscrapers.
Only muddy paths and boundless fields.
She took an overnight train, arrived at the station early in the morning, and then rushed to catch a bus home.
The bumpy ride mirrored the desperation she had felt when she was trying so hard to escape.
Before coming back, she had deliberately bought many gifts.
No matter how much she disliked it, she had to keep up appearances.
