Chapter 61: Flying Over the City

Beth was thankful that she wasn't afraid of heights and under different circumstances she might have enjoyed the flight over Center City.

Instead she'd been terrified. Now she paced in a room in a house in West Philadelphia. A row house and they were on the end. She'd had the state of mind to memorize where she was. She didn't have her phone. It was still at Grotesque. Or wherever Trent was, she was sure.

She'd learned early on not to rely on her parents so even if she knew where they were, she wouldn't have expected them to help her. She was on her own.

Looking around the room, she was on the second floor. Out one window was a roof that she could jump onto, but could she jump down from there? Who waited for her at the bottom? Not knowing what was going to happen, she needed to take action. It was part of her training as a nurse.

Standing by and awaiting her fate wasn't in her makeup. Her parents had never understood that. Standing a little back from the window she observed the yard