Most nights, she preferred to stay at home, snuggle on the couch with her cat, and drown herself in a bottle of wine. Going out was the last thing she wanted to do. She groaned, wondering why she had agreed to go out with Kiera and a few of her co-workers that evening. Let me just put on some makeup and I’ll be right down. Kiera: Where are you? It’s quarter after. Twenty-one years is a long time to have no family.Īs she was contemplating her shit life on that Friday in mid-August, she heard her cell phone buzzing on her desk. Yes, twenty-one years seems like a long time. In exactly one week, her parents would have been dead for twenty-one years. That’s all Olivia Adler could think about as she stood staring out the window of her office on the twentieth floor overlooking the Financial District of Boston.
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