Chapter 43
MAGGIE
I only spent two weeks at home, but it was hard to return to Las Vegas. My mind tugged in both directions. Stay in Hillstone where everything was safe, but static. Return to Vegas, to an apartment without Bronwyn and back into the world of Jay Thornton and Simon Ting. I was going back to nothing but trouble. Or nothing and trouble.
The apartment was cold when I stepped inside, cold with the breath of a thousand ghosts. Or just one. The first night back, I flicked on all the lights and didn’t turn any of them off, even when I went to bed. I’d been lonely when I first came to Vegas, but Bronwyn had saved me from it. Now I had nothing and no one to keep the loneliness away. So I kept myself busy.
I searched for a job. I ate Cup-o-Soup and walked everywhere to keep expens
