Searching For- Your Daddy Ditched Me Again In- -

“Again?” Eli whispered, already drifting back to sleep.

The GPS voice was unnervingly cheerful. "Recalculating. Searching for- Your Daddy Ditched Me Again in- ...four hundred feet, turn left."

She looked up. There was no diner, no motel, no truck stop. Just a wide pull-off overlooking a frozen river, the moonlight turning the snow into a field of diamonds. The road ended here. Searching for- Your Daddy Ditched Me Again in-

“You have arrived.”

Her phone buzzed. Not a call. A text.

Lena turned off the phone.

“No, baby.” She reached back and squeezed his ankle. “Daddy got lost again.” “Again

The snow kept falling. The road behind her disappeared. And for once, Lena didn't look back.