CHAPTER SIXTEEN
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ELLA DROVE INTO WHITBY before eight. She felt restless, so she left home first thing that morning.
She missed Mark’s body next to hers and spent a terrible night. The man decided to let her rest before her trip and left early the previous evening.
Ella regretted that she hadn’t left soon after Mark’s departure, even though she would have arrived at her parents’ house around eleven or midnight. Her parents didn’t go to bed early, so her arrival wouldn’t have been a problem. At least, she might have felt less edgy in their company, and part of her sadness might have vanished.
At eight-fifteen, Ella parked in her parents’ driveway and opened the trunk. Her eyes fell on the pile of things inside, and with a sigh, she started gathering them. Ella had received a lon
