Winnie quickly moved to the other side and got into the car.

Eric didn't lower the partition, but the atmosphere in the backseat between the two was completely different from before. The air felt as if it had frozen.

Winnie didn't know where Van was taking her or how far the journey would be. The window on her side wasn't covered by a curtain, and the street scenes shifted and changed. The late autumn afternoon sunlight filtered through the blue glass buildings, sometimes ...