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I STARED AT HER IN alarm. “What do you mean?”
She walked over to the window and looked outside. “Someone’s been following me, too. I’ve noticed a dark SUV tailing me a few times. And yesterday, I could have sworn someone followed me through the mall.” She wrapped her arms around herself. “I just have this feeling it’s Galen.”
My father, Galen, went A.W.O.L. after attacking my mother back in June. Although they’d been separated for over two years prior, he’d flipped out when she’d finally started dating other men. He beat her badly, leaving her mentally and physically abused. He was the whole reason we’d left California for Montana. She was terrified he’d hurt her again, especially after pressing charges.
“Well, how do you think he found us?”
She turned around and sighed. “Honey, he’
