CHAPTER 5 : THE QUITE BEFORE

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The next few weeks slipped by like a dream Lucy wasn’t sure she wanted to wake from.Every morning smelled of coffee and rain, every night of soft music from Peter’s old stereo. It was the kind of ordinary peace she had only seen in other people’s lives — now it was hers, even if she didn’t know for how long.