“I think I’m the only one that can. I can teach you, but we need a car.”
“I can get one,” Sienna said.
“Without stealing it?” Lacey laughed.
“Yes,” Sienna hissed.
“When can we do it?” Nia asked.
“How about tomorrow at lunchtime?” Lacey suggested.
“I think I can get a car by then,” Sienna said.
“Good, meet out the back of Lacey’s building at noon. We’ll go out in the country where there aren’t a lot of cars,” Kinley said.
“What are we going to tell our daddies?” Eve asked.
“That we’re having lunch with each other,” Nia said.
“Girls, let’s get ready to go,” Cason yelled from the bottom of the stairs. “And Hannah, I’m taking you home.”
Hannah nodded, hugged the women, and followed Cason out of the house and into the back seat, anxious to get home and into bed. Her level of strength was still not what it used to be, but she was slowly getting stronger every day.
She watched the two interact with each other in the front seat, and a cold knot grew in her stomach because she’d never have that again. She knew she’d eventually have to deal with it or be miserable forever.
Chapter Seven
The next day, Hannah and Lacey headed down the back stairs and out the back door to see Sienna already there in the car with Nia and Eve.
“Come on, you guys,” Sienna yelled from the back seat.
Hannah scrambled into the front seat next to Nia.
“How’d you get the car here?” Nia asked.
Sienna grinned. “Very carefully. Fortunately, it wasn’t far.”
“Yes, thank God,” Eve said.
Sienna growled. “Hey, I got you here alive, didn’t I?”
Lacey and Eve snickered and nodded.
Nia put the car in gear. “Now, watch what I’m doing.”
For the next ten minutes, Nia gave her instruction after instruction, and Hannah might have gotten half of it because the girls in the back kept distracting them.
“Are you ready to try?” Nia asked.
Hannah swallowed and nodded. She had to do this to become independent.
The two got out and raced around the car to the other door.
“Put your seatbelts on,” Nia said. “Okay, now put your foot on the brake and then put the car in gear.”
“It’s the D, right?”
“Yes, D for a drive, N for neutral, and R for reverse.”