Chapter 2
Exhausted, throat so dry it hurt to swallow, I stumbled up the driveway of a lowset block of units, eyes fixed on the doorway to the left. Angel was somewhere behind that door. The invisible path I’d followed for the last several hours had guided me unerringly to this point.
The sun had been high in the sky when I’d first started out, the shadows of early evening appearing as I trudged the last couple of blocks. I’d tossed my white robe in a backyard soon after hitting the town outskirts, slipping through an open gate to steal a flowing black dress off the clothesline and throwing it on over the nightgown. I couldn’t do anything about my slippers, but the dress had proved enough of a disguise to get me here without any fuss.
I reached the front door of the unit and raised my h
