Stephanie sighed, her poor stomach was growling furiously and her mouth was dry as all hell, her thirst unimaginable. She'd long since poured the jug of water out on the floor, grateful that it evaporated quickly and ripped up the food making it seem like she'd eaten some, some of it thrown in a box nearby so that her mother couldn't see what she had done. This had to work she thought fiercely, she needed to get out of here and it was the only plan she could come up with. She already suspected she knew where Cassie might have gone, after all Liam had been sick and out of sorts that day, wouldn't any mother have gone to the hospital nearby to get him checked? Cassie had been worried she remembered, so it made sense she would have headed there first. That's where Stephanie would go if she ma

