Chapter 34On Friday evening, while Kayla was out shopping for her costume, Melissa had driven over to the country club to meet her father for an early dinner. He had called his daughter in the afternoon and told her he was going to play nine holes of golf, and then he would like for her to join him for dinner at the grill, foregoing the more formal dining room. Missy was relieved to have something to distract her for awhile as the weekend had loomed ahead like an endless road that she did not want to begin traveling. All it offered was work, pain breaking through her self-induced numb state, and too much time to think. She had absolutely no plans as her mother and Glen were both out of the picture this weekend. Her mother had flown to the West coast to do a deposition for a case, and Glen
