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There was a time where Dina had sworn that nothing like this would ever happen. She had looked at her newborn child and promised that no harm would come to him. That he would never know the life she had know, and maybe even more importantly, he would never know the life Ellie had known. Dina had looked down at her son, and promised him a life of safety and love.
Now, he was gone.
She had spent the past two days looking tirelessly for him. It barely mattered to her that she was lost in a place she’d never been in before. It barely mattered to her that there were cars with gas, engines running, electricity that didn’t come from generators. She noticed it, of course she did, but it didn’t matter. She could process all of that when JJ was safe in her arms.
Dina sank down in the chair and closed her eyes. She wasn’t going to cry again. She wasn’t sure that she could, or if all the water in her body had already evaporated. It wasn’t that the people at the b&b weren’t nice, they were overly so, but none of them had seen JJ, and Dina was just as lost as she’d been before.
She drew a deep breath before pulling her legs up onto the chair in front of her, wrapping her arms around her. She wished Ellie was here. If anyone could turn the world upside down for their son, it would be her.
“Where are you?” she muttered to herself, running a hand through her hair as she opened her eyes back up and looked down at the newspaper in front of her. There was a slim chance that there’d be anything there, but she was running out of options.