Joy came to Jeri as the weeks passed. She finished one dog enclosure and started on another, working with the dozens of moving parts it took to put a building up. From cement trucks to electricians to plumbers, Jeri managed them all by herself.
Honestly, she was exhausted, but she was doing what she loved, and that made up for it. When she wasn’t eating dinner with Sawyer, or sitting on Sawyer’s front porch holding his hand as they talked, or going to church with Sawyer, she worked on the sketches for Karla.
The cabins in the Community were functional for one person. She supposed a couple of people could live together if they got along really well. While there were two bedrooms, the living space was pretty small, and there was only one bathroom.
With the amount of hair Jeri had, if she’
