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“Mommy, look there’s a dog! A real dog!”

“That’s Cleopatra, but we call her Cleo,” Johnny said. “Come on, Kenny. She’s been lonely and needs a friend.”

Rachel sensed he wasn’t just talking about the dog. That he had figured out more about her from their initial meeting than she’d intended to reveal.

No…that wasn’t possible.

“Cleo was a stray I found on the side of the road,” he said. “She’d been abandoned and abused. She needs someone to love her.”

Tears burned Rachel’s throat. He sounded so sincere.

And somehow he’d picked up on the fact that her son needed stability. Peace. Normalcy.

She let him guide her toward the dining hall. They would stay, she decided.

But at the first sign of trouble, that her ex had followed them, they’d hit the road and never look back.