Chapter 113: Dad
This realization wrenched my whole world out from under my feet. I didn't know anything anymore. It reminded me too much of the unstable feeling I had when Kassandra died. It was all I could do to keep myself standing, let alone my two little girls. With our new reality, we needed each other, now more than ever, but I couldn't shake the feeling that something was terribly wrong. Leigh's screams wouldn't let me.
Blinking back tears, I drove to Jo's, certain Leigh would be there. After all, this was her second home. Hope straightened my shoulders from the worried stoop they had been in all day.
But on the way up the sidewalk, the skin along my spine prickled. My sure steps slowed to a stand-still, and a deathly chill clenched my muscles around my bones. A powerful gust of wind rushed past and tossed stray leaves, flower petals, and small branches across the Monroe's yard.