After being betrayed by the people she trusted most, a woman is reborn with her memories intact and a second chance at her own life. Rather than fight for a fiancé who never truly loved her, she steps aside and lets her scheming stepsister take him — setting in motion a plan to expose the betrayals around her and reclaim her future.
Dinner was a bowl of watery potato and oat soup with half a piece of rock-hard bread. Someone took a bite and burst into tears. I ate every last bit.
If I didn't, I wouldn't have the strength to work the next day. Before dawn, I followed the others to the cargo dock. I had to clear snow from the freezer units and haul heavy crates of frozen goods.
At first, the blisters soon covered my hands. I never complained. No one here would do my work for me because I was hurting. At lunch, I sat beside a shipping container and pulled out my hard bread.
Someone held out half a piece of dark smoked meat. I looked up. It was Sarah, another worker who'd arrived with me. Here, you need the salt out here. It'll warm you up. I glanced at Sarah's rough hands, then took the meat.
Thanks. She saw my torn blisters and frowned. You didn't do much work like this back in Boston, did you? I shook my head.
she sighed and patted my shoulder give it time don't push yourself too hard out here your comes first I looked down with a faint bitter smile back then whenever Priscilla called to cry about Alaska he'd give me a look that could everything you have you took from while she suffered out there once I got here I understood her pain was real but it wasn't mine
mind to bear, and no one living in comfort got to judge how I survived.