Chapter 127

Just imagining it made her want to dig a hole for herself to crawl into and die! She spent the rest of the day hard at work. When her shift finally ended, she packed away the cleaning implements and left. As usual, she crossed the street to wait for a bus that would take her back to her apartment. The bus was running late today… Half an hour, and it still hadn’t shown up. Her handphone rang. It was her mother. Willow answered the call. “Hi, Mom. What’s up?” Her mother’s grumpy voice started rattling off immediately, “You promised me a full explanation! Why aren’t you back yet? Thinking to play me for a fool again?!” “I’m on my way back. I’ll be there soon. Just wait a little longer.” Annoyed, Willow hung up on her. Instead of a bus, the next vehicle to appear was a taxi cab, which pulled right up to her by the roadside. Without a second thought, nor a single glance to see who might be inside, she opened the door and got aboard, giving the driver directions to her apartm