Chapter Fifteen Her dad had slept on the sofa, and when Billy Jo left for the office, he was just getting up. Mark, meanwhile, was already gone after having spoken for an hour on the phone with Kristi Moore, from Minnesota. Now Billy Jo had a dragon to slay—namely Grant, who had taken her key and her files. She wasn’t going to let him separate the Gillespie girls. She was furious because kids didn’t have a voice, and she realized she would do anything to make sure nothing happened to the ones on her watch. She pulled up in front of the office and spotted a beige SUV along with Pam’s red Fiat. She stepped out of her car, pulled in a breath, pushed her shoulders back, and strode to the door. She pulled on it once, but it was locked, so she fisted her hand and knocked, and she didn’t have

