It was the loudest sound in the SUV.
Daniel’s jaw moved once as though he were chewing words he did not want to say.
Ashley’s fingers tightened around her phone.
The town thinned behind them.
The houses gave way to fields.
The shoulder disappeared.
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The sky opened wide and blank over the road, the kind of sky that made a person feel small enough to be misplaced.
“Daniel,” Margaret said.
He did not answer.
“Where are we going?”
He drove another fifty yards.
Then he pulled over.
Gravel popped
