Venus plopped the mop down into the bucket of soapy water and then settled it into the wringer, using all her strength to wring as much of the water from the mop as she could before beginning the arduous task of cleaning the kitchen floor. She knew she shouldn’t have left the flour sitting on the floor and gone to the university, but she just didn’t have the strength to clean up after herself this morning after her baking frenzy. She’d spent most of the night baking pies and cakes as a way of coping with her pain. It had been four in the morning by the time she’d crawled into bed. But rather than soothe her broken heart as it normally did, all her baking fest managed to do was add more pain to her body. Now, in addition to emotional pain, she had physical pain. Her back ached, her feet wer
