CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
Her eyes blurred with tears, Emily hurried down to the porch with her cell phone. She just managed to type out a text message to Amy. A second later her cell lit up with an incoming call from her friend. Emily answered it with trembling hands.
“What’s going on?” Amy asked, panicked.
“It’s Daniel,” Emily replied, her voice warbling. “He’s leaving.”
Out on the porch in the darkness of night, under a winter moon, Emily shivered. But it was as if the cold was internal, not coming from the icy breeze but from some deep, dark place that was opening up inside of her.
“I don’t understand,” Amy said. “Where is he going?”
Emily looked up at the light glowing from her bedroom window, knowing Daniel was inside packing his things.
“It’s a long story,” Emily stammered, trying t
