CHAPTER 27
“Why are we stopping, Mama?” Dez’s voice was muffled by the heavy mounds of snow surrounding them on all sides. “Don’t we have to keep walking to get to the highway?”
Jade had spent the past few hours doing what she could to protect her daughter from worrying, but she couldn’t keep up her pretense anymore. “Baby, we’ve got to stop. I don’t think we’re going to find the highway tonight, and it’s already dark.”
“So what are we gonna do?”
“I think we’re gonna have to snuggle up real close to stay warm and try to rest here.”
“You mean outside?” Dez sounded as incredulous as if Jade had told her that her real daddy was Santa Claus.
Jade tried to keep her inflection positive. “Come on. It’ll be fun. Remember last summer when you were begging me to take you camping?”
Dez pouted.
