The mall was crowded. She forgot it was Saturday. When Emily walked through the front doors, the air-conditioning slapping her gently in the face, she felt a moment of panic. The outing had been her idea, to get her mom out of the house. To do something normal for a few hours. Todd stirred up the desire in her. And as much as she wanted to find out just how normal he could make her feel with a little time and attention, he quietly left the day before, abandoning her to her parent's dismal collapse.
When she woke in the morning, she needed to try to put some sort of fantasy together to keep her going. And from the look of her mother's face, that need was going around.
Pamela hadn't given her much of a fight when she mentioned the outing.
"Sure, honey." Since when was her mother an automa
