Chapter 13
The Face in the Mirror
The next few weeks dragged by in a haze of boredom.
Far from being relieved at the news that Jodi Lewis was a suspected runaway, and probably not a kidnapping, Susan abolished the newfound freedom Penny had enjoyed since leaving the city. Her bike leaned unused against the front porch, and Penny rode to school in the Falcon every morning.
Susan forbade her to leave the school grounds at lunchtime. And she spent the few hours after school let out and before the shop closed stuck inside with nothing more exciting than homework to occupy her. Zoe was with her for those few hours most days, but it was still idle time.
By the end of the second week, when Tovar The Red had not shown his face in town again and no more kids vanished, Susan began to relax and
