Chapter 195

Chapter 195

“Fuck it!” My foot hits the pedal and I pull away, hoping that I was making the right decision for the kid.

It takes almost a week to get back to Black Shadow. Each night I stopped in a hotel to make sure we both got a decent night’s sleep and to feed us both. Not once did she ever ask for food and my guess is that they starved her or only fed her on their terms. So she had learned to wait, to ignore the hunger growls in her empty belly.

The first day, she ate like a dog, lapping up the food with her mouth. She didn’t know how to hold a cup without spilling and she definitely didn’t know how to use a knife and fork. She had been their pet, and from the age tag in her dress that said 2-3yrs, she had most likely been the bar’s pet for years.

Dorothy was so excited when I picked her up some clothes, but didn’t seem to understand what I was saying when I said she could change every day. She kept insisting that a pink dress was her favourite and that she would wear it all the time. So I just bought more, so she could wear a fresh one every day.

She was even more excited by a teddy bear that one of the hotel staff gave her and carried it around everywhere with her. 1

How could people be such assholes? To have the desire to lock up a kid was sick. 3