Lila Greene said, reading the news story headline on her laptop screen, horror twisting through her. As if answering, her brown-and-black tabby, Chloe, meowed loudly. “I know! Horrible, right?” Lila said to the cat, her only companion in her parents’ isolated mountain cabin. She’d moved to the family’s remote vacation home for the privacy, for the inspiring views it provided for her work...and for the peacefulness it afforded her broken heart. As an artist, she preferred plenty of uninterrupted time by herself to experiment with different mediums and bring her commissioned oil paintings to life. As a casualty of her ex-fiancé’s cheating, theft and lies, she considered the location an escape as she healed from her deep wounds of betrayal. She’d been hard at work on an oil painting of the West Virginia landscape near her cabin when she heard the first pings on her window of the predicted ice pellets. She, along with the rest of the populace of Collins Ridge, West Virginia, had been glued to weather forecasts as the wintry mix moved in from the northwest.
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