Chapter 5

At four in the morning, I quietly dragged my suitcase out of the home I'd lived in for the past three years.

No goodbye. No note. I just left.

In the cab on the way to the airport, I sent my daughter a text.

[I've gone back to my hometown in Willow Valley. My three years as your unpaid nanny are over.]

Then I turned off my phone.

As the plane lifted into the morning light, I looked out at Sunport City shrinking below me and felt lighter than I had in years.

Three hours later, the plane landed at…