Chapter 207

Who was really smarter - the person who fought impossible odds or the person who waited for their chance at good odds?

And what was there to be done when the odds were all stacked against them?

She should feel buried under defeat, but Trish had trouble mustering that emotion anymore.

Her life here was, in many ways, much better than it had ever been. Or did she only feel that way because otherwise she'd be utterly crushed by the hopelessness of her situation? Sometimes she wondered. But she did acknowledge the ways in which her life had improved.

Actually, if she could continue getting her education - in a structured class schedule, not the little bits of information she read herself during the few times Jordan actually left her alone with computer access - she might even be some semblance of happy. There had never been a time in Trish's life when she'd really been happy. She'd never really had friends. Sometimes Laura said things Trish di