Chapter 4Winter arrived seemingly without warning, but surely a gradual change in the temperature had been happening over time. Perhaps it was more that Angela hadn’t noticed because of the palpable change in barometric pressure at home; the atmosphere had become chilled and stormy. A shift in circumstance in late October had precipitated this deviation in the emotional weather.
Elizabeth had tried to end the relationship with Angela and Dawn on multiple occasions earlier in the month. Angela was sure it was because she found the situation had become too boring…or too complex. Perhaps it was because she had such a lack of emotion for one of them and too much for the other. Whatever Elizabeth’s reasons had been, Angela used a barrage of emotionally manipulative tactics to convince her to s
