With A Mother's Heart by Joyce Livingston

Author:Joyce Livingston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

Six

Judy leaped from the bed and bounded into the child’s room and there was Timmy, clutching his pillow to his chest with a look of terror etched on his young face and tears streaming down his cheeks. “It was that man! He was in my dream and he was chasing me, Aunt Judy. I was running as fast as I could but I couldn’t find you! He was grabbing at me. I was really afraid!”

She threw her arms around the frightened boy, pulled him to her bosom and stroked his tear-stained cheeks. “Aunt Judy is here, Timmy. Shh. You’re okay. It was only a bad dream. No one is chasing you. We’re safe here at Bramwell House. No one knows where we are.”

Timmy was trembling from head to toe, his intense sobs breaking her heart. Perhaps they should have stayed and let the police protect them until Skitch Fallon was caught and put behind bars again. How long could they go on like this? The running was hard on her, too, but she was an adult. The decision to run had been hers. Timmy’d had no say in it. No, she decided as she nestled her chin against the boy’s soft locks, running had been the only sensible choice. It was best this way. Hiding until they were sure they were safe had been their only option. True, the authorities would have done all they could to protect them. But would it have been enough?

“Can I sleep with you? I’m still afraid.”

Judy wrapped her arms tightly around him and struggled to calm him down. He was still shaking, though not as violently as when she’d rushed into his room. “Sure, honey, but you don’t have to be afraid. We’re safe here in Memphis. It’s a big city and a long way from Dallas. He can’t find us here.”

She took the boy’s hand, led him into her bedroom and tucked him safely into her bed. As she lay there in the soft glow filtering in the window from the yard light, she remembered similar dreams she’d had as a child. So vivid, so real, of someone chasing her and nearly catching her, and she wished she could spare him the fear dreams like that bring to a child. But there was one big difference between her dreams and Timmy’s.

Hers were only a figment of her imagination.

His were based on a real threat.

Her scattered thoughts went back to the car she’d assumed had been following them as they’d driven toward the zoo. That incident had turned out to be a false alarm. Yet, had she and Timmy been followed or spied on at other times since they’d left home and not even been aware of it? She’d been careful to cover their tracks. The bus ride to Denver where they stayed overnight then bought a ticket. Another bus to Kansas City. Two nights in two different motels there, then the long bus ride to Memphis. As careful as they were, if they’d

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