Chapter Fifteen •

Dusk descended with a darkness that engulfed the earth quickly. It could be because it rained. The rain had come bearing gifts of a fallen temperature. Cold, Kamsi was covered in a big navy blue sweater that had been her step mother's own.

From the dining where she stood, she could see her features in the glass window although faint. She could see her puffy eyes and she could see the darkness beyond the window in place of the little garden she would have seen had it been in the day or had it been the back yard light was turned on.

She walked to the kitchen...