Chapter 14A week later
“Is it always this hot here?” Rick asked, wiping sweat off his forehead. Even the air conditioning in their new car didn’t seem to help.
“It gets better at night,” Beau replied.
What normally would have been a two-day drive, with stops, had taken them a week because Beau wasn’t about to come straight down and chance someone would be following them, or figure out where they were going and try to waylay them. So they’d gotten what Rick had called a scenic tour of several cities and states, switching cars twice along the way.
At times during the drive, Rick would go silent, staring out the window, deep in his own thoughts. Beau was afraid he was going to change his mind and asked to be dropped off in the next city or town. He didn’t know what he’d do if that happene
