She got up and checked the locks several times before finally lying back down. It took another hour before she finally fell asleep. She had to drag herself out of the bed when it was time to take Cici to school. She got a call from Abe letting her know that a lawyer was coming by to talk to her and her mother about what happened. She had her doubts that anyone could help her. The lawyer she had hired for the divorce told her to give up. She just accepted that she would have to deal with everything on her own. There was no way around the fact that she had broken the law by taking Cici and running. Roxanne was going to have to pay for the decision to run one day, sooner or later. Every instinct in her told her to run again, to take her mom and Cici and find a new place. It was all she had known for four years now. It was hard, especially for Cici, who didn’t understand at all. She only knew they were staying away from her father because he was mean.
