Wichita was exactly sixty-two miles from Granger, according the the road sign, but the strip on West Kellogg Street was where they entered town, and that’s where all the fast food places were. Janet was astonished at how quickly they got there.
She’d spent the first ten minutes trying to figure out why she’d reacted so violently to his arrival. She interacted with men all the time and nothing like that had ever happened. She wasn’t afraid of men. She just didn’t want to get involved with one in an intimate relationship. But her panic had been so strong it had almost incapacitated her! She did’t understand.
She didn’t have time to reflect on that any longer, because, little by little, he got her to respond to his questions and, once he got her talking, she had talked pretty much non-stop.
