Or perhaps, he had never possessed her at all.
Sitting there, the palms of his hands throbbed with a numb pain. It was a pain that spread from the inside out, making him feel that from this day forward, he was truly all alone.
He closed his eyes and waited for night to fall.
Meanwhile, Dorothy was quickly brought to Chloe Marshall. Chloe was somewhat surprised that they suddenly allowed her to have her daughter, but a burgeoning sense of foreboding left her at a loss.
"Mommy!" Dorothy Bancroft trotted over to her legs and wiped her tears on the hem of Chloe Marshall's clothes.
"This is nice. Dorothy is with Mommy again."
Chloe Marshall picked her up. "They didn't do anything to you last night, did they?"
Dorothy Bancroft shook her head. "No. Mommy, I'll tell you a secret. Just now, when they were dragging me over, they said that tonight I'll be 'hitting the road' with you. What does that mean? Mommy, where are we hitting the road to?"
