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"Hope has theAKay cared about, giving her baby girl a happy childhood Hope would never have a reason to question if she was loved or if she was a disappointment to her mom

Kay brushed her hair back from her face and stood She had a decision to make Go back to her parents’ house and pick up the diapers or go to the store and buy more Her parents were closer and she wouldn’t have to stand in line

But at the store you won’t get a lecture, she thought

Quickly, Kay retrieved the spare diaper she always kept tucked in the inner pocket of her handbag It had seelad she’d done it now A few minutes later, she had the baby cleaned up and redressed

Hope squir table and get down to the floor to play

"Okay, little o!"

ELI PUT HIS beer down on the table next to theHisstorlance down at the watch on her wrist and then go back to frowning at the glass

"What’s wrong, Mo someone else?" Eli looked out the , but he couldn’t see much beyond the flurry of snowflakes and the crystalline patterns the ice for about Kaylee He said she had to go back out, but then she never called to let hiot back home safely"

Eli waved Matt over When Matt joined them he asked "Did Kay call yet?"

Matt shook his head slowly "Not yet She’s still not at ho her phone" He showed Eli the blipon his cell phone screen "She shouldn’t be out in this stor It shouldn’t have taken her this long to run to the store" He spoke lightly, but there was a thread of worry underneath

Matt had been guarding Kay for months, and they’d become friends He knew her usual habits, where she went and when If he orried, then there was reason to be

Eli pulled up the GPS application on his own phone It was useful at tih technically he should have taken Kay’s tracking ID out of his syste her anymore He pulled up her identification number A second later, there was a small red blip on his screen She was definitely not home