RUNAWAY ROSE
Chapter Four
New York
It was nearly five o'clock before the train
reached New York. Rose mentally calculated the time. It had been one o'clock
when she left, and it was at least two hours between trains to New York from
Philadelphia. She had about two hours to make herself scarce before Cal or his
valet could even get to New York.
Suddenly, Rose felt like laughing. She was
free! She had promised Jack that she wouldn't give up, and she hadn't. It had
taken her two months to get away, but she had done it. She wouldn't go back to
Cal, no matter what happened.
Rose sobered. Her joyful mood vanished as
quickly as it had begun. What would happen to her mother? She had been counting
on Rose to marry Cal and solve their financial problems.
Rose tried to put the thought out of her
mind. If she went back to her mother, she would wind up married to Cal. Another
man would have given up on her after the way she had treated him, but not Cal.
The more she resisted, the more he wanted her.
Rose vowed that she would never go back.