CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
The news headlines didn’t get any better. Reporters were now digging into the sordid history of their parents, painting Danielle as a victim of a childhood with no real parents. They had also uncovered a public intoxication charge from Danielle’s past and were harping on that now as well.
Chloe was again alarmed that Danielle was starting to sink into some sort of vague depression. She was no longer trying to make light of things and the woman who had given her a hug at Riverside Correctional that morning seemed to have gone into hiding. That brooding little girl Chloe had grown up lurked right behind the surface, ready to slink out of hiding and take up residence.
They had sunk into silence after the talk about the book club, but it was a silence that Chloe broke a
