Foxed by Garry Ryan

Author:Garry Ryan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: NeWest Press
Published: 2013-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Mary sat in one of the women’s shelter’s second-hand rocking chairs and looked down at a sleeping Joshua. She gently combed her fingers through his thickening hair. It seemed to get longer every day. He took a deep breath. She stood, walked over to the crib, set him down and covered him with his blanket, one of the things she’d remembered to bring with them.

She looked around the room at the desk with initials carved into it, the dresser with decals on it and the single bed pushed up against the wall. Mary listened. A baby cried somewhere down the hall. A toilet flushed. She looked out the window and down to the street. Cars were parked on either side of the pavement. Mature trees touched branches over the middle of the road. The streetlight cast a soft glow over the shelter’s empty sidewalk and private front yard.

So easy to escape, she thought. All I had to do was ask the woman driving the bus how to get to the women’s shelter and here we are. She sat on the bed and watched Joshua breathe. I need a plan, a way to get him out of this mess. Then she thought about Russell. I hope he’s okay. The woman who had admitted Mary and Joshua to the shelter had taken one look at her swollen nose and said, “I don’t want you to contact anyone. It’s safer for you and your son. And it’s safer for the other women in the shelter.”

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