Chapter 14
Samantha didn’t so much awaken the following day as she came to. And she came to listening to the sound of two people chatting and giggling in the next room, as well as the noise of a blow dryer. She groaned and rolled over, pulling the pillow tightly around her head, trying to shut out the sounds. For a moment, she didn’t know where she was. She cracked her left eye open a sliver and took in her surroundings. She was alone in a hotel room. The queen size bed next to her was unmade. Clothes, some of them hers, toiletries, and cheap Las Vegas souvenirs lay strewn about the room. She tried to look down at herself, but couldn’t see much out of the cracked eyelid. She did wonder about the shirt she was wearing. She saw purple fabric sticking out from underneath the blanket. She dis
