Chapter seven
SuviSome people are fortunate. They can stop after one drink. We must never believe that we are the same.
Sobriety Partnership Handbook
Suvi sat in the living room, with her feet propped up on a worn leather ottoman. The television squawked in the background, as a game show contestant won another round. She wasn’t paying attention, couldn’t have cared less, but Tom leaned forward and spoke to the screen.
“You’re cheating, Van Doren. I just know it.”
She looked at the glass of gin in her hand, and wondered who he was talking to. Suvi had stopped caring what Tom thought the night she had seen him and Katy leave the restaurant together. Now she drank whenever and wherever she liked. Curiously, it had made her indulge far less, though she made a big show of it now. She spoke
