The Drive by Teresa Bruce

Author:Teresa Bruce [Bruce, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2017-06-12T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

PANAMA

If there is a border I’ve been dreading most, it is Panama’s. Not surprising, considering the welcome I got the first time. I was accustomed to my mother asking me to “go talk to the guards” and “help Daddy stay out of trouble.” I just wasn’t prepared to see him barefoot, tied to a chair, with his wrists strapped together by his own belt, refusing to pay another bribe. I started to cry and couldn’t stop. Not when the man behind the desk pushed the hair out of my eyes and gave me candy. Not even when the guards gave back my daddy’s shoes and untied his hands. Not even when he wiped my runny nose with his thumb and told me everything was all right. It wasn’t. I could feel his heart pounding as he carried me back to the camper, and he smelled sour—just like he did when he picked me up from my sleepover on the night my brother died.

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