Chapter 140

“Um-hmm.” Jamie yawned as she settled on her stomach with her pack under her head. “Might see if I can sleep.”

“Me, too.” Daw stretched out on his back, using his pack as a pillow, staring up at the dark sky. It took him a while to fall asleep as his thoughts went back to what Jamie had told him. He listened for any signs someone else was on one of the roofs. The only sounds he heard came from the occasional car or truck passing on the street below them. Eventually, he fell into a restless slumber plagued by nightmares of being pushed off the roof, mixed with ones of his last day at home. Those would never leave him alone for long, but he’d learned to deal with them, as he had with everything else in his life since he’d become homeless.

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