CHAPTER 19
Kimmie hoped that with the electricity cut off, Chuck would fall asleep early. Without his TV to keep him company, there wasn’t much else for him to do. It was far too much to expect him to get up and attack that pile of dirty dishes in the kitchen, and besides, without the electricity the well didn’t run. In the early days after Mom moved in with Chuck, the trailer was hooked up to a generator to prepare for Glennallen’s sporadic power outages, but it had fallen into disrepair, and Chuck always maintained it was too expensive to fix.
Kimmie was looking forward to a quiet night. Chuck couldn’t expect her to stay up and clean, not with the sun down and no running water. She might crawl in bed with Pip and cuddle for a while until it was time for her to go back out. She wasn’t e
