Sister Sue looked around the refuge’s meal hall.
Sam wasn’t there again. She had never been absent for so long before. Since she had started volunteering, she had never stayed away longer than one or two days. Like clockwork, she would be there for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, helping before she would ever help herself. Even if she was going for a job interview or temporarily had a job, she would still drop in for part of the day.
The fact that Sam had been away so long, especially over Christmas, was strange and Sister Sue was determined to find out what was keeping her away.
She couldn’t lose her. She couldn’t live without her. Especially not now Joyce had gone as well.
“Sue Page, you bring those smokes back to me right now, or so help me, I’ll tell your husband all about those men
