Chapter 33
Kelly smiled at the interviewer, after her answer, trying hard to keep her smile from looking fake. She’d told the story of her mother’s tragic death and how it propelled her to start Heather’s House to honor her mom’s memory, so many times, that by now, it was easy to repeat without feeling much. The story she told about her mother’s decline from meth was true. She just kept out the part that her mother never really had a decent life to start with. And after reciting her spiel ten or twenty times, it had begun to get a tad redundant.
The interviewer was Kyle Drake, who usually added a little more drama than necessary to anything he said. Kelly tried to keep from letting her eyes roll at Drake’s dramatic summary of Kelly’s life story. Kelly wouldn’t have dreamed a year ago, th
