DESIRE
It was late in the afternoon when Jenny got back with my car, Tara had already fallen asleep. She had been my support, telling me stories of what she'd done in school till she fell asleep. She was so little yet so intelligent, she knew I needed a distraction from my thoughts and had done just that, distract me.
But now that she was safely sleeping in her room, those thoughts came back with full force. I couldn't sit still, every minute it took the police to find who had pushed me was a threat to my life. I've never been so scared as I was now. If anything happened to me, what would happen to Tara. She was still so little, too little to lose her mother.
"Will you stop pacing around the room, I'm sure you've worn a hole in the carpet already. I thought your leg was hurting."
"Yes
