Chapter 11
Summer had been easy. Life is always easy when you’ve got an escape hatch, and for Ruth, that place was her sister’s cottage. Her sister had a bit of an open door policy where the cottage was concerned, and so Ruth had spent nearly two months with various family members. Anyone could come at any time. Some weeks, the place was packed. Other weeks, it was just Ruth and her nephew, Sean.
God, did she ever want to tell him about Agnes. He was bisexual. If anyone would understand, he certainly would.
Sometimes the hardest secret to keep is your own.
Coming back to the city at the end of August proved more stressful than she could possibly have imagined. At the cottage, she could pretend Agnes was an angel, a dream. Back in Toronto, everything reminded her of the girl wh
