Chapter 26
Jamie ventured out of the hideaway for a couple of hours every night. She’d find a small business to break into, steal what cash she could, and then go to the Burger King, where the same girl was waiting with a bag of raw beef for fifty bucks. The pimply-faced teen was getting a nice bonus.
Jamie had hit the jackpot on the third night, finding over three hundred dollars in the cash register of a clothing store. It only took her half an hour to walk to the hamburger joint, get her food, and scurry back to her new home. She didn’t want to do anything else. She just lay in the blankets and waited—for what? To die?
Easy to do—just crawl out into the daylight, she thought.
But she didn’t.
One evening, she saw a police car approaching, and she hid behind an abandoned building and
