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She picked up the cellphone and just as he said, he had progra ainst it She put the cellphone back on the nightstand, grabbed her laptop, sat on the bed and opened it She checked her eed into the chat rooed back off

One last time, she went to theand looked across the plaza His light was still on, but he was not standing in hislooking back Tired and devastated by his hurtful words, she got under the covers, touched the diaave her, and finally let herself cry

"How is she?" Austin asked when he called the next day He hadn't slept h he wasn't ht before called for a few toodown his second set of aspirin with coffee

"Quiet, but she's fine" Jackie answered "Right now, she's trying on clothes fro up"

"Good, send me the bill"

"I intend to It's Sunday and it took so to have them send someone"

"Did she sleep?"

"Not well I heard her ht and peeked in, but she settled back down"

"Laura called She got the police to take Mathew out of the house I don't like not knohere he is, and I won't know if he's out of town until he uses the credit card"

"Try not to worry, we're keeping her safe Austin, there is a lot you do not know about Georgia"

"Then tell ry when she turned sixteen, but then Maggie, the girl who died in the car wreck, hacked into the school's records and found out who Georgia's parents were"

His was a stateie's identity"

"No, it was not like that Maggie had an Aie wanted to go to the art school Georgia got a scholarship to, so they switched"

"Oh, I see"

"Did the security guard tell you how she's been living?"

"No, how?"

"The guard was so appalled, he wanted to throw all her clothes away and I convinced her to let hi in a converted erator and stove that don't work All he could find in the cupboards was a box of crackers"