‘Not sure what time I’ll be back,’ she added. ‘Don’t wait up.’ It was a deliberatively provocative parting comment. She knew she’d be home long before they went to bed, but she was irritated by her mother’s trespassing into her privacy. She strode out of the kitchen without looking back, letting the door bang behind her. ‘How will you get home?’ she heard her mother call after her. Damn. She hadn’t thought about that. In the past, she would just have hopped in her car, but obviously that wasn’t an option. The car had sat in the yard untouched since her father had recovered it from the police.
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