Chapter 212 Mother's Guilty Confessions>>36

• Sunday morning Stevie came around lying alone in her own bed. A brilliant blue and cloudless sky tempted her from the other side of the window, the blinds turned inward. If only she had the strength to move. Her legs, her arms, everything felt like a dead weight.
• Just lying there, staring out through the window at that sky, barely breathing, barely even blinking, beyond the sound of the neighbours' lawnmowers whirring along the pounding silence insisted of reality's walls caving in.
• She could not get last night out of her mind...