Chapter 23I drove like crazy all night. I had to, or I’d have turned around to go hunt for Carlos. The thing that kept me heading east was the gut knowledge he wouldn’t go through with it. He took that sign business seriously. So I kept my foot on the accelerator hard enough to earn a whole bunch of speeding tickets. But I didn’t even see a cop, much less collect a traffic fine. It was hard on the girls doing it this way, but they didn’t complain.
When we dragged into Albuquerque, the hotel had a room for us. I checked in, and fell into the bed without even cleaning up. I heard Nola cajoling a sleepy Junie through her nighttime routine, but I was out of it before they came back to claim the other queen-sized bed.
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Nola apologized for waking me at noon, but Junie was hungry. I dra
