Chapter Nine

The beep of a car horn forced Eva back to reality with a huge thud.

“Watch where you're going stupid girl.” The driver shouted angrily out the window as he drive on by.

Eva sighed and looked around her. She was in the town centre now. It was not so busy since it was quite late in the early evening now.

She wiped her face and pulled her jacket over her more as it was getting slightly colder now.

Remembering that she had her phone in the pocket of her jeans and looked at it to see no new notifications. That meant that they were still too busy arguing to notice that she had left.

Eva hoped that Millie and Eddie were ok. It could not be very nice for them to have their parents argue and disagree like they were doing. She knew that it would be a strange adjustment for the little ones to have their big sister come to live with them.

Spotting a small case across the road, she decided to go on there for a hot drink and to sit so she could calm down and gather her thoughts. Nobody wou