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He went right by her driveway and kept on going toward town

Was it so bad then that he was taking her to the doctor? She bit down on her lip “My purse and everything is at the house”

“The stor to enerator”

She laughed shortly “Of course you do”

Now that she’d seen her knees it see worse She spent the re to breathe evenly But when she closed her eyes, she saw Kristian’s frightened face just as the walls started tu her name and it seemed to make her heart expand and warm all at once

It was better if she kept her eyes open after all

“I finally got through the rest of the attic stuff,” she said, the idea taking her mind off the pain

“Find anything interesting?” he asked

They’d left things in a bad way between them, with a reluctant truce And yet Abby still trusted hih this whole journey and it see him the whole story “I found a little chest It was a pile of Edith’s personal things Makeup, hairbrushes, books … her diary”

For a aze sharp “A diary, huh?”

“The lock was broken off it If

Elijah did that, he would have been livid after reading it He was not a nice man, Tom”

“So we gathered”

She took a breath, let it out slowly, trying to ease the stabbing in her knees “Remember I said I saw a suitcase in my … well, let’s call it my vision There was a letter to Edith’s parents that she never got to give theht On V-E Day She was taking the kids and ot the chance”

“Are you serious?” Toain he took his eyes off the road and looked over “Where were they going to go?”