Chapter seventeen
SuviWhen temptation confronts you, ask yourself what you will gain from giving in? What will you lose?
Sobriety Partnership Handbook
She woke in a ditch, as water seeped into her shoes, chilling her. Suvi stared at the brown stems of marsh grass obscuring the sky, wondering why she thought they would be green. As green as a summer field of wheat...
Remembrance wrestled with a dream and finally prevailed. Suvi sat up with a cry. “Jim!”
The ditch proved to be the one next to the dirt road leading to the farmhouse. She ran along it, dreading what she would find when she reached the end. The gate was open, hanging crookedly from a single rusted hinge. Beyond, where the house used to stand, an untidy thicket of weeds and shrubs filled her view. Blackened timbers poked thr
