Chapter 10Angela had made her amends to Terry honestly, for she recognized that Terry’s severing of ties had been the first nudge toward Angela’s sobriety. No one else had confronted her so directly. Of course, Angela assigned meaning to that caring and had decided that the meaning of this selfless compassion was that Terry had a soft spot for Angela in her heart, and that soft spot was something that Angela could manipulate.
Terry and Angela picked up their friendship very much where they had left it, complete with emotional and physical intimacy, the subtext of Angela’s desire just below the surface. To prevent herself from making overtures toward Terry too soon, Angela kept repeating a sort of mantra to herself about Shane, Terry’s new man du jour. Terry had never been alone for very l
