Liam
I caught the flicker of fear in Jenny’s eyes before she looked away. She didn’t want me to see it.
Too late.
She was holding herself together with pure stubbornness, but the cracks were there.
I moved closer, whispering so only she could hear, “He doesn’t get near you. Not while I’m breathing.”
Her gaze lifted to mine, and for a second, the room fell away. It was just us.
“Will school be out in a week?”
“Yes, but I need to take her out now. I won’t take the chance that he'll go to the school and get her. We’ll go somewhere else. He’ll eventually know where we are, now that they found that car.”
We’ll leave in the morning. You can pack a suitcase for yourself and Poppy; we're taking a road trip until Fraiser can find out what’s going on.
“A road trip? Where can we go?”
“We’ll wing it.”
“What are we taking?”
“You’re taking my SUV,” Fraiser said.
“We’ll take my truck,” I said. It’s parked at my Dad’s, he’ll bring it over, and we’ll drive him back home in the morning.