Chapter 20
The week-old Dallas newspaper flopped against Lareina’s hands as she tried to turn the first page past a backward crease left by a former reader. The hospital waiting room was silent except for the bubbling of an aquarium and the tapping of the receptionist’s pencil. She scratched absently at her arm where the stitches would be removed today as she scanned the headlines.
Flooding across Texas Leads to Major Evacuation, Property Loss, and Crop Damage. Persistent rains have fallen across the plains, but nowhere as severely as Texas.
She scanned the first lines of the article, but it was information she knew all too well. Her eyes skipped to a new article.
A new political group known as The Defiance continue to inspire riots and violence in parts of Kansas and Missouri. Local a
