CHAPTER 13
RILEY WATCHED HER blood mix with water and disappear down the drain. It ran down her leg from where she’d cut herself shaving and slipped away into the void. The sight compelled her. She tore her gaze away but the image remained, imprinted on the layers of her mind. Down the drain, into the void.
She toweled herself and stepped from the shower. Running a comb through her hair, she avoided the mirror, staring instead at the specks of granite in the countertop, counting the shades of gray. She pulled on jeans and a light sweater, fighting a heaviness that threatened to drag her to the floor.
In the kitchen, she put on the tea kettle and sat at the table, flipping through a stack of letters and bills, pushing them away, unread. Silence stretched through the house, filling the cr
