Chapter 20

Eight years later

Mary's P.O.V

Another day and another new town. I was honestly getting a little tired of the constant moving but being with dad and Dora made it a little easier and the fact that Dora was actually teaching me everything that I needed to know for school and life skills meant that I did not feel out when I sneaked off to meet the friends that I managed to make in every new place we moved to. They talked about school and this subjects and those subjects and finally, I had something that I could also talk to them about in this regard. 

I didn't ask why we were moving anymore because the one time I asked Dora and dad heard they told me that bad men were after Dora and that they knew that dad and I were helping her and subsequently they were now after us as well. I remembered what had happened all those years ago outside that clothing store when Dora had fallen into the heap and was in such pain from them just being near her that I was a