Passion & Pumpkins
“It was only mid-afternoon, but the thunderclouds and sheets of rain had darkened the October day to twilight and turned the dirt road into sludge. Ten minutes and spinning wheels confirmed her rotten bad luck – stuck fast.Fucking perfect, Evie thought, and slammed her hand against the steering wheel, instantly regretting it as splinters of pain shot up her aching arm to the newly healed scar tissue in her shoulder and side. She had ignored the sling for the trip from New York, finding it awkward to drive one-handed, but after ten hours, even Evie's legendary stamina was giving out and her whole left side was one big, burning ache.She squinted through the rain-slicked windshield at the split road ahead and considered her options. If memory served, her grandmother's cabin was about a mile up the right fork. The nearest neighbors were the Daniels, a half mile down the opposite fork. Evie had a vague recollection of her grandmother taking her to visit Martha Daniels, who smelled of lemon ...and clean linen, cooing over her and wishing she'd had a little girl of her own.MoreLess
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