Chapter 75

“You won’t make it, I know that for a fact,” the woman stated with complete certainty.

She walked over to me, and her bright green eyes sized me up.

My heart sank to my toes. Exactly how far were we from the boarder? What were we going to do if we couldn’t get further?

“But, if you stay here with us tonight, we’ll move some of these cars out of the way in the morning and we’ll let you get your truck through,” she offered out of the blue.

It should have been a god send; a real blessing that she had offer us shelter like that. But, instead of feeling lucky, I was suspicious. First, they didn’t even want us to come through the barricade and now she insisted we spend the night?

“Are you kidding me?” I snapped.

“What?” she replied in defense.