Wordle #1034 – FACET
Chapter 11.
THREE YEARS EARLIER
When I opened my eyes, I was surprised to see that it was raining. Not hard, just a smattering of drops sprinkled across the windshield, glittering like tiny faceted gemstones.
What should have surprised me was that my car had run off the side of the mountain road and into a tree. Also not hard, mercifully. The airbag hadn’t even deployed.
But my head was too foggy to register precisely why or how that broad pine tree had come to be pressed up against the nose of my car. Because I was dizzyingly, stupidly, utterly drunk. Again. Which was not surprising at all.
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