“I really appreciate you stopping.” Laura shivered in the front seat of a red pickup truck. An older, balding man who smelled as if he’d been around animals all day and had greasy hands drove. Gabriel was in between them and was leaning against Laura, shivering, both of them cold and damp from the rain that had started shortly after they hit the highway. She had been glad when the man stopped, as Gabriel was crying and she didn’t think she could take one more step.
“So whereabouts was your car that broke down? Don’t remember passing anything on the highway.”
“Oh, I pulled off the road when it started sputtering. I know there were a lot of bushes around.”
The man grunted and kind of hunched over his steering wheel some more. “A woman in your condition with a little one shouldn’t be on th
