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to my sister’s baby.”
    “You will be, Jay.” I promised, but I hadn’t the faintest idea how that would happen. “We’ll figure a way to make sure of it.”

Chapter 5
    At exactly 1:00 a.m. climb from your bedroom window. In the trees behind your house, Officer MA will be waiting. He will escort you to N. Once in N’s care, you’ll have a long journey of tossing your father from your trail. Bring nothing but this phone. Be safe. Love G.
    At the sound of the phone buzzing between Jaylah and I, alerting us to a message, we both froze. The laughter that had touched at our lips as we daydreamed about a baby, and life away from this nightmare, passed, as reality set in. The illusion we’d very foolishly crafted of a life filled with smiles and peace had vanished quicker than toilet water down the drain. As my heart pumped quick and viciously in my chest, I literally felt as though hope had been flushed down the toilet to swirl in the sewer.
    With shaky hands, I’d opened the text message. From the other side of my bed, Jaylah read the words and a sob that sounded more like an animal in agony, wretched from her throat.
    My entire body stiffened as my breath caught in my throat and my ears twitched as I tried to hear if her sob had awoken anyone. Jaylah slapped her hand over her mouth and her wide brown eyes swept over the room as she realized her mistake.
    After nearly ten minutes, where every second felt like a pulsing wave in time, we breathed in relief. Her cry hadn’t woken anyone.
    “You can’t do that again.” I scolded my little sister, who in these last seven weeks, had become an adult in my eyes. “I can’t risk Dad waking, Jay. Because I’m leaving regardless - but it’ll be easier on everyone if I go this way. We need time to figure out a way to calm Dad down, and he won’t do that with me moping around the house.” I shook my head. “I can’t wait for him to calm down. My life has started, and I’ll be damned, Jay, if I don’t live it to the fullest.”
    She nodded, blinking back the watery proof of her loathing of our situation. “I know. I’m sorry.” She sat up in the bed, trying to keep herself calm. “We only have forty minutes before you have to be out that window - gone.”
    “You don’t have to stay in here.” I whispered.
    “No.” She growled. “I’m not going anywhere, Nova. We have forty minutes, I’m saying we make those minutes count!”
    I blinked and a tear slipped from my eye. “Okay, how?”
    “We need a plan.”
    “A plan?”
    “Yes,” she nodded, before glancing at the phone. “Who is MA, N and G?”
    “I don’t know who MA is, but,” as soon as I spoke the words, a memory flashed in my mind and I felt my skin crawl over my bones. Officer MA was no other than Officer Michael Andean - the man who’d pretended to be working to find me, all the while getting particularly close to Jaylah. Calix had once used Michael Andean to threaten my compliance - he’d threatened me with harm to Jaylah by the hands of the Officer.
    Jaylah’s soft voice broke through my thoughts. “You know who he is now, don’t you?”
    I nodded. “Yeah,”
    “Well?”
    “Jaylah, there was an officer who was helping you find me, yeah?”
    “Yeah,” she held her breath. “Why?”
    “What was his name?”
    “Officer Michael Andean.” Her eyes widened and her lips parted on a gasp. “Oh my God. MA. Michael Andean.” Her hands moved to the top of her head, her fingers digging into her hair, curling into the locks in a move of utter stress. “How? I mean, I know how - but, why? Shit!”
    “Jaylah!” I hissed through scolding eyes. “Shhh!”
    “I freaking went on a date with him just last week, Nova!”
    “You’re still seeing him?” I raised my brows. “Why didn’t you tell me you were dating?”
    Her skin turned ashen and she muttered. “I didn’t think telling you I was dating would help you feel any better about being without Calix.”
    “Shit, Jay.” I shook