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Like father, like daughter

What her conscience suggested made her roll over and bury her face in the pillow She was not like Frankie Lang; she wasn’t running away froe or a kid Sam and Lucan and Burke would be fine without her They had a stronghold filled with devoted humans and immortal warriors, allies in Orlando and Atlanta, and , they’d have each other

No, she wasn’t like Frankie at all

Chris had just turned thirteen a few days before her constantly battling parents had had a huge fight over , and Frankie had picked up his board, kissed Chris on the top of her head, and took off

"See you later, baby," he called as he walked out to his Jeep

Chris never saw hi enough to clean out as left in the bank account, leaving Adele with nothing Despite this, Adele refused to get a job, a divorce, or otherwise deal with reality She repeatedly told her daughter that they would simply wait until Frankie came to his senses and returned hohter

When her checks had begun bouncing and the credit cards stopped working, Adele had been furious She had spent weeks on the phone de neither Adele’s Chrysler disappeared in thea police report she learned it had been repossessed As their food dwindled and the collection noticesChris off to school each day with the pro would be fine

The bank began calling about the is; Adele refused to speak to the loan officer up until thetwo sheriff’s deputies arrived to evict theh their s at them, and then closed their blinds so they wouldn’t have to watch

One of the deputies had been kind enough to offer them a ride to a local shelter for homeless families, where Adele sat in a dead silence as Chris filled out the intake forer told theive Adele time to find a job or so, and er took theht of the tray Chris had fixed for her seemed to rouse Adele from her stupor "What is this?"

"I don’t know" Chris, who’d been living on canned food for weeks, sat down beside her and started eating "It’s not bad Soe" Adele had slapped the fork out of her hand "We don’t eat garbage" When the shelter er came over to speak to her, Adele threw the tray of food at her before dragging Chris up by her arht now"

Her ar into her skin

"Mohts co for theo back inside You don’t have to eat anything We could just rest for a while"

"We don’t belong here," Adele said, her voice as hard as her grip "We’re going home"

The cops reached the end of the driveway before they did, and blocked it with their squad car

"Ma’aht at Adele’s face "We got a call from the shelter that there was soirl okay?"

Adele looked down her nose at hie You should go and arrest theave Chris an assessing look "Everything’s going to be fine now, honey Don’t be scared"

Her mother yanked on Chris’s arm and hauled her around the cop car When the officer followed and called for her to stop, Adele broke into a run, dragging Chris alongside her She tried to keep up, but so

"Easy, sweetheart" One of the cops helped her up

"Please don’t hurtthe other officer "She’s just really upset"

"It’s okay," the cop told Chris as his partner handcuffed her mother and hustled her into the back of the squad car "Yourto take her to a hospital"

She saw the sheltera few feet aith a pluo, too?"