Chapter 16
Northern Minnesota
Sleep did not come easy for Helene as nightmares haunted her throughout the night. The faces of Suzanne, Alice, Thomas, and Bill all mingled together in a collage of feelings, each of them pulling at her, needing something from her, but she didn’t know what.
As the morning light filtered in through the nearly closed drapes, Helene struggled to pull herself awake. She lay in bed staring at the ceiling, not wanting to get up, yet not wanting to stay where she was. Yesterday filtered through her mind as she tried to understand all she had learned. How could they have lived in the same house and not known what each other was going through? Their father had been easy to despise because of his constant drinking and his downright meanness, but yesterday Helene beg
