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“No answer?”

Shaking her head, Toni tapped out a text with the sae she’d left by voice

“Okay…” Shell glanced in the rearviewto snow I’ forward, slowly I think there are bathroo Yeah?”

“Yeah,” Toni said, phone already to her ear Once again, five rings and the voice happened?”

When Shell didn’t respond, Toni’s stoirl were high Especially now that the snoas falling in a thick white blanket

“Shit, it’s really getting heavy”

“You doing okay?” Toni asked

With her hands clenched on the steering wheel so hard, her knuckles had whitened, Shell leaned forward for a better view “Yeah It’s just us on the road, and I’etting out of here, though”

Toni didn’t say anything They could cross that bridge when they got there At least at that point, they’d all be in the car with heat and the ability to dry off

Five one a few hundred feet The snoas so thick, seeing beyond the curtain of white had grown near impossible Any other ti and beautiful scene, but now all she saas a dangerous barrier to finding Lindsey

Both woe With her eyes squinted as though that wouldsnow, Toni scanned every inch of the park Shell did the sa to stay on the rapidly disappearing road

Soe of Toni’s peripheral vision “Stop!” she yelled Shell instantly sla the car to skid forward about ten feet “Go back a bit I think I saw so!”

Shell put the car in reverse and rolled at a snail’s pace “Tell me when”

“Stop, stop, stop!”

Practically ainst the , Toni squinted “I swear I saw so”

“Take your ti like you ran here from the diner”