Chapter 5I sleep like crap that night and the rings underneath my eyes are back when I wake up. I shuffle around my apartment like a ghost of myself, but when it’s time to open my laptop and start the workday, I can’t stand to be alone. So for the first time in weeks, I leave the apartment unaccompanied.
I stuff my laptop into my bag, get into my car, and drive to my sister’s place. She and Rosa are at work, but I have a key so I can let myself in.
But after parking in their driveway, I don’t go inside. I set up my laptop on the patio table, grab a cushion and a blanket from the storage bin, and get comfortable so I can work from here. Just for a moment.
It’s a sunny but chilly morning, and I have to pull the hood over my head so I won’t freeze to death. I wrap my hands around the coffe
