CHAPTER 28
“Mama! Mama! It worked!”
Jade forced her eyes open. Had she been asleep? “What worked, baby?”
“My prayer. When I asked Jesus to give me a dream.”
Jade waited for her brain to snap to alertness. “What are you talking about?”
“Remember when I prayed that God would tell me which way we’d have to go to get out of the woods? Well, he did. I was just falling asleep, and I remembered. I remembered looking out the window when I was in the car with Auntie … with that mean lady. When we got to the place where the road turned real bumpy, the mountains were behind us. I could see them behind us in the little mirror on the side of my door. I just thought it all of a sudden while I was starting to feel sleepy.”
Jade glanced around to see if there was enough moonlight to make out the mou
