Chapter 75

About 15 minutes later, the police arrived. The young girl froze the moment she saw them. This wasn't what her mother had told her would happen at all. "I found this girl just as I was about to close up," Abigail explained. "I have no idea what's going on, as she hasn't said a single word to me. She looks like she might've gotten separated from her parents. Could you take her in and figure it out?" Not far off, in a parked car, Gianna and the woman were stunned as they watched the scene before them. They had expected Abigail to take the child home herself. Who would've thought that she'd just call the cops? Gianna ground her teeth in frustration, thinking that Abigail never played by the rules. "Do you still have anything to say?" she snapped at the woman, barely keeping her anger in check. "Didn't you say that she had a compassionate heart? Didn't you say that she'd take your daughter home?" The woman wrung her hands, clearly just as caught off guard. But Abigail had done the r