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Bella hated being in a strange town and not knowing where to go when she was feeling alone and attacked. If her mom was still alive, they’d be curled up under a blanket and watching a sappy romantic comedy. But if her mom was still alive, Bella never would have met Albert or Ryan or any of the other people she was running away from.
Her phone didn’t stop ringing, so she turned it off and dropped it into her enormous purse, hoping she would lose it before she lost all sense of self-preservation and checked her messages. As much as she wanted to talk to Ryan and Albert, she didn’t want to talk to them until she figured out how she felt about the whole thing.
She really needed a friend.
No. She needed her mom. Her mom was her best friend. Always was, always would be. And it didn’t matt
