Chapter 322

It started small.

It always started small.

At dinner on the fifth day, Vera reached for the water and her hand shook slightly. When Sadie noticed and asked if she was alright, Vera looked at the table with the look of someone holding something together that wasn't easy to hold.

"I'm fine," she said. "I just think about the future sometimes. About doing this alone."

The table went quiet.

"I never p