Roommate II

Three and a half hours later, Elma started to feel a sudden dread creep its way into her. She could not stomach any longer how much time they'd spent on the road so far. It felt unreal. Was this mystery house somewhere off the coasts of central Kansas? Elma did not know the roads so well but she could guess from the car's map reader that they were driving towards the city of Missouri. How unrealistic was that? — that Riccardo should expect her to come to work from a place that far off. Was he expecting her to wake and get on her way at 2:30? Even that was an impossible thing to ask of her.