Chapter 22

“You will never believe what happened to me at work today,” Addy said when she walked in the door.

Silence greeted her. She looked around at the empty apartment and sighed.

“Hello?” she called out. “Anyone home?”

The apartment remained silent.

Shrugging, she kicked her shoes off and said, “I guess I’m talking to myself, then.”

Picking up her shoes, she hobbled into her bedroom to change her clothes.

She sat in the chair wearing her pajamas when Brooklyn came home from her shift at the coffee shop. Addy soaked her sore feet in a tub of warm, sudsy water, had cucumber slices over her eyes, and her earbuds in her ears.

After taking her shoes and apron off, Brooklyn padded toward Addy and softly called out, “Can you hear me? Are you awake?”

Addy didn’t stir at first, but when Brooklyn drew closer, she reached up and removed the cucumber slices from her eyes.

Seeing her roommate, she tugged the earbuds from her ears and stepped out of the soaking tub onto the towel sh