Chapter 10 ShannonI peered into the motel room, holding a heavy sack of newly clean clothes. A stiff wind swept across the parking lot. I shivered in my old raincoat. I lost the lining a long time ago, and it left me unprepared for the wintry day. The briskness in the air had lingered into the early afternoon with the low-hanging clouds. Kid’s car wasn’t parked out front, but that didn’t mean my husband wasn’t there. I didn’t know when he’d be back. Kid hadn’t been back in the four days since he’d dropped off my things from back home in Mineola—or what had been home. Now, Dallas would be my home, along with Kid’s. He insisted on coming with me. No way was he going to let me move to Dallas and be close to my rich ex-husband without him. Then, he up and left. f*****g typical. I had good n

