Chapter 17 Continuing The Looming Confrontation

possessions, but in her resourcefulness, her resilience, and her unyielding will to

survive. She had survived worse than Silas, and she would survive him too, by turning

his assumptions against him, by using his own arrogance as the instrument of his

downfall.

She ran a hand along the cool metal of the radiator, testing its sturdiness. It was old,