Abby laughed as she pulled down the driveway for the forty-minute ride to town. She was beginning to wonder if Zoran was ever going to let her leave. She went over all the things she could think of in the house to make sure he didn’t starve while she was gone, but it took even longer to convince him she didn’t need protection against whatever imaginary creatures he thought she might encounter.
He wanted her to take some type of weapon he had with him and was mad as hell when she laughed and said she didn’t need it. Now, she was running even later and would have to stop at the post office first if she wanted to get there before it closed.
Abby rolled down the window after she got on the highway and turned up the volume on the CD player, singing as she drove. She actually enjoyed the drive
