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There wasn’t any story Autumn could offer her parents as an excuse for what might turn out to be an extended stay in McAllister territory, so she didn’t even bother to try. Or rather, she told them that she and Laurel were going out to the Twin Arrows casino east of town for the long Martin Luther King weekend, figuring that would at least give her a running start of three and a half days before anyone began asking too many questions.
And if she managed to fix all this, they wouldn’t even realize she’d disappeared at all, and so she couldn’t allow herself to worry too much about any anxiety she might cause them. Guilting herself would only stop her before she even got started.
Luckily, Laurel got off work at noon on Fridays, and so it didn’t seem strange that the two of them would hea
