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She could care for complete strangers with tenderness, but not show an ounce of TLC for her own daughter.
Hey Anna—I’m more than OK. I met a great guy named Trent McCarthy. He makes me feel safe and beautiful. More details when I can!
Lucy wanted to make a list of every day since Steph had left and the corresponding information we had gathered. She began typing and reading aloud.
That night at my place when Steph told me that she would be willing to endure a disease, a few nights in the woods, or a friendly kidnapper to get her son back in her corner. This wasn’t some giant cat and mouse game, was it? Was Trent the friendly kidnapper? Could she possibly have staged this to make Evan worry for a while and then return triumphantly?
“Robert,” she finally stammered. “That was Dave. He said a GM friend of his called him. Apparently, word is getting out in the news community that a news director named Trent in Atlanta is in jail. For something awful. And Dave’s friend said it involves another news director, a female.”
“That one is a Jasmine V. Littleton. The second potential victim is a Stephanie H. Monroe.
To my shock, $500 in cash was inside. I knew then it was from Jasmine. She had come through!
Now she would receive child support for Brittany and Brett and get her own house.
“Dorothy Robinson, Boston,” she replied in a voice so deep that it surprised me. “I’m a former investigative journalist. I’ve been at the ABC affiliate for over thirty years, news director for the past eight.”
Steph had withdrawn large sums of money both in San Diego and Atlanta.
