CHAPTER 65

“She isn’t picking up,” Esther groaned, having called Karen a total hundred times. “She was my ride here, how could she do this?”

“Maybe she had a little bit of an emergency.” Daniel suggested,

“How do I get home? It’s already late, I can’t believe she did this.”

“If it’s any consolation, I was abandoned here too.” he shrugged, “Let's get a taxi and we’ll go from there.”

Esther nodded and he got to work on it. Within thirty minutes, they were behind a taxi headed to her place. Throughout the ride, Esther’s mind was all over the place. She couldn’t un-see how broken Elvis seemed when his wife walked away.

How Karen bowed her head in shame, looking like a deer in headlights. She ached to know the story behind it but with miles separating them, she couldn’t get home fast enough.

Weird sounds erupted from the engine and the car slowed to a stop.

“Not again..” she muttered, and they watched the driver walk out the car to check his vehicle. All said and done, they were stranded with no