Chapter 10. What Is Your Emergency?

Pandora looked at her dad’s house, taking a few deep breaths, trying to muster up the courage to go inside.

‘I am a grown woman with a job, a car, and a house!’ she told herself, but she also had that small voice in the back of her mind repudiate. ‘Did you forget the ex-husband whom your father asked you not to marry?’

Pandora groaned, knowing she was about to start her engine and just leave with how conflicted her thoughts were.

She jumped when she heard a sharp knock on her car’s window.

“Sorry,” Nina smiled as she looked through the window. Pandora let out a nervous laugh and opened her car door. “Is everything alright?” Nina asked as she looked her stepdaughter over.

“Yeah,” Pandora muttered and shut the door.

Nina and she walked to the house the older woman shared with her father. They had known each other since high school. They went from being close friends to raising Pandora together. Nina’s husband cheated on her ten years ago and Pandora