Searching For- Your Daddy Ditched Me Again In- Here

Then the GPS rebooted with a soft chime.

Your Daddy Ditched Me Again, she thought. And for the first time, the sentence didn't end with a question mark. It ended with a period. Searching for- Your Daddy Ditched Me Again in-

“Searching for- Your Daddy Ditched Me Again in- ...point six miles, stay straight.” Then the GPS rebooted with a soft chime

Lena stared at the lie. She’d already seen his location share flicker on for thirty seconds by accident. He wasn’t in Rawlins. He was in a Holiday Inn two exits west of here, the one with the indoor pool Eli had been begging to visit. It ended with a period

Her phone buzzed again. Tom: Seriously. I’ll make it up to you. Just wait.

For the first time in six years, she wasn't searching for anything. She was just sitting in the quiet, her son breathing softly behind her, the snow erasing every road behind her.

Her phone buzzed. Not a call. A text.