“Ahhh!” Brenda yelled as she started swinging her arms wildly as if she were fighting a ghost.
Sean looked back and saw the spider web in her hair and on her face. He laughed to the annoyance of Brenda.
“Sorry,” he said. “Not everything you will encounter is on the ground.”
By dusk, they made it to the river and found a good place to spend the night. Alone, Sean could have made the trip in six hours, but with the girls, it took all day. He didn’t care though. Brenda and Kim had given him the love he’d been longing for well before he and Robbie went to Corpus Christi.
The girls could hear the excitement in Sean’s voice. At long last, he was going home. “All we have to do is follow the water downstream. We’ll get to Reggie and Emily’s place first. They are Robbie’s grandparents on his mo
