She wriggled her shoulders within the loose-fitting rugby jersey that had been her dad's and put her iPhone down, glad to have finally spoken to her mother and relieved that she and Great Aunt Dominique were both OK. The marshals were with them at Ellensburg and a SWAT team was also on the way. A SWAT team! In addition to the team heading to Ellensburg to protect her mother, the marshals protecting Charly had told her just ten minutes before that another SWAT team was on its way right now to Sunset Hill. God, what was happening? Charly couldn't believe she'd been so stupid as to have left her cell phone off. The fact that she'd also turned the home phone to silent so she could sleep was another disaster. But it was what she and her mother had agreed. Everything had seemed OK at the time Madeline left to visit Dominique. Charly needed peace and quiet; time to get her head right. That meant distancing herself from all she'd been through, including the fear and uncertainty she was now reminded of by the constant presence of the protection detail.
