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emotions.”
    Georgie nodded.  She gave Kate one last squeeze before
she slid into her car.  “Call me later.  I love you, sis.”
    “Love you too.”  Kate watched as Georgie drove
off.  She quickly buckled Mary into her car seat and slid in to the
driver’s seat.  Putting the car in reverse, she glanced over her shoulder
and was surprised to see a police car parked behind her.  The tapping on
her window startled her.  Rolling the window down, Kate wondered what was
going on.
    “License and registration, please?”
    “What?  Why?”  Kate asked, confused.
    “Ma’am, I need to see some identification.”
    Deciding to cooperate, Kate reached inside her purse and
removed her license.  She opened the glove box and removed her
registration as well.
    A puzzled frown crossed the cop’s face as he inspected her documents. 
“Ma’am, do you live at this address?”
    “Not anymore.  My husband and I have separated.”
    “Ma’am, you set off the security system.”
    “What security system?”
    “The one that is installed at this location.  I’m
sorry, ma’am.  It must be something your husband had installed
recently.  I’m going to need you to come with me.”
    “What?  Are you serious?  This is crazy.  My
daughter is in the backseat.  What am I supposed to do with her?”
    Glancing in the backseat, his eyebrows rose and he
sighed.  “If you will cooperate with me, I’ll allow you to drive to the
police station on your own and I’ll follow you.”
    “I really have to go to the police station?”
    “I’m afraid so, ma’am.  The security company cannot get
a hold of your husband.  Until someone speaks to him and gets the safe
code, I have to bring you in.”
    Could this day get any worse, Kate wondered.  “Alright,
officer.  I’ll cooperate.”
     
    Pacing a trail in the carpet in Tim’s office, Georgie
vented.  “I’m telling you Tim, that house was cold.  Empty.  It
was eerie.  And Kate, oh Kate!  She just wandered the house with
this, this, devastated look on her face.  There were a couple of times
when I thought she was going to faint.  And when she went into Mary’s
room.  God Tim!  You’ve never seen such a desolate look on anyone’s
face.”  Georgie sighed and dropped her head into her hands.  Tim
walked up behind her and rubbed her shoulders.  Georgie put her hand on
his and held on.  Squeezing his fingers, she turned her head to see
him.  “What makes people do that?”
    “I don’t know, babe.  I don’t know.”
    “She just wants to know why, you know?  I don’t think
she’ll ever know.  I can see how much that part is eating at her. 
She’s having such a hard time comparing the Brad who saved her with the Brad
he’s become.”  Georgie shuddered at the memory of Kate in pain.  It
had been Brad who’d called her.  Kate had been in a coma, and when she
woke, Kate had asked Brad to call her.  Five long days Kate had been
alone.  No family, no friends – no one, except Brad.  The man
who’d saved her.  He would always hold a special place in Georgie’s heart,
because if not for him, Kate may have died.
    “Georgie don’t.  Don’t go back there.  There was
nothing you have done differently.”
    “That’s where you and I disagree, but I’ll let it go for
now.  She’s calling a divorce lawyer tomorrow.  She’s hoping for a
quick divorce.  She doesn’t think he’ll fight her for Mary.  And
she’s not going to ask him for anything.  I think she’s out of her
mind.  She should at least make him give her child support.”
    “You think he’d do that?  He didn’t help her with Mary
before she left, you really think he’s going to start now?”
    “The old Brad would, Tim.  You know that.  And
without him…” Georgie let the thought drift away. 
    “Georgie, he’s been a piece of crap for a year now. 
Shit, I’m more Mary’s father than he is.  He doesn’t want them anymore and
I’ll bet you he does what he has