Triple Temptation
And what had my mother, Lira, known?
My gaze came to rest on the small, wrinkled leather-bound book I'd carried in my backpack – my history book. I reached out and grasped it, following the contours of the familiar cover with my thumb. It was something I could hold onto, a link to a time before this damned place. And then, without warning, a memory, vivid and clear, cut through the haze of my despair.