Chapter 4: Trapped
It’s four in the afternoon, and Savannah Bainbridge Jolley is watching her favorite soap opera in the cramped front room of a single wide trailer. Her mama used to call soap operas her “stories.” Savannah, tall and slim like all her family, likes this particular story because she has an obsession with the wife of the rich villain. As she often does, she allows her hand to creep down and pleasure herself there on the ratty old couch, even though her husband Bruce is just a thin wall away. For these few moments, Savannah can feel like life opens up, and happiness might still be in reach.
Then the show is over, and she’s back in the Piney Woods trailer park in Abilene, Texas, chained to this man she once thought she loved. She straightens up her clothes and listens for th
