#Chapter10 FIRELIGHT

Uncle Brewin’s nurse, a middle-aged, heavyset blonde woman named Paula, met Sam at the door.

Once inside, Sam hung her coat on a hook in the foyer and asked “How is he?”

“Pain got to be unbearable,” the older woman said, leading Sam into the family room. “He didn’t want to take the morphine before you got here but I had to insist.”

Sam’s heart sank. “Is he awake?”

“Yeah, but the medication has him… confused. He kept calling me ‘Alice.’”

Alice was Brewin’s old girlfriend. The two of them had spent nearly ten years together before they finally called it quits. Last Sam had heard, Alice was...