CHAPTER ELEVEN
On the way back to Belton, she decided she’d get a few hours of sleep and then check out around four in the morning. That would put her back in Omaha at nine or ten in the morning, giving her a full day to wave herself back into the flow of things.
She noticed along the way that Ellington did not try to get her to answer his last text. She was trying to figure out why she was so annoyed with him. She’d been angry with him before but she usually had a discernable reason. Maybe it was just the case clouding her judgment. Now that she’d faced down her mother, she’d be able to figure out the source of her irritation when she was with him again.
She got back to her room at 4:45 and ordered from the town’s only Chinese restaurant. As she waited for her food, she showered and ch
