Driving Away
Melissa didn’t want to find out why. At least not here and after everything they’d gone through. She gave the guard the doll and strapped her child into the backseat before driving away.
As the store disappeared into her rearview mirror, she smiled. This was all behind her now, an unfortunate ordeal the universe had decided to pit her and Hailey against each other.
But she wasn’t even on the interstate before her phone started ringing.