Chapter 18: Running Away

The sun was peeping out yet a cold and chilly morning. Sarah was up early, and could barely stand the presence of her mom. She thought meeting her needs and giving her whatever she asked for was enough to make her stay away from her, but she was wrong.

Sarah’s mother, Ana Martha, as she knows goes by after Amelia and Stephany, came in the night with no warning and without notifying Sarah that she was coming.

She had been traveling around, either running away from debtors, hooked up with a rich man, which she left after sucking him dry, or running away with his money. She always did anything that would bring money, which fed her gambling habit.

A second without money drove her crazy, and one of those crazy scenarios was hunting down her daughter to ask for money.

“Where’s the money?" was the first question she asked when she saw Sarah for the first time in years. Not only did the shock of seeing her mother strike her speechless, but the dirty clothes and bruised face, even though they