Chapter 164 - QUINCY IV

She had no idea how true that was for my family. I nodded and went up to my room, moving now like someone waiting for the second shoe to drop, the lightning bolt to strike, and the earth to quake under my feet, sending me hurrying back into Daddy's arms and the life I had hoped to avoid. Practically every night, I reconsidered fleeing but always came to the same conclusion. If they could find me here, they could find me anywhere. It wasn't simply the announcement in the social news, for I had seen Ava before that appeared, and either someone from Daddy's clan or another living in the vicinity already had sent me a sharp, nearly deadly warning with the accident Jim and I were forced into having that night. Meeting the elderly man on the plane was no accident. I knew I was being shadowed, followed, and watched from the moment I had left Buddy and stepped into Moses's tractor-trailer, and in my heart of hearts, I knew I would always be on their radar.