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I turned off Hawthorne Boulevard and hit the brakes. The SUV came to a rocking stop

a couple of feet from the chain link gate that blocked the entrance

to the abandoned shopping mall.

How do we get in?

I said, leaning over the steering wheel and looking at the evening sky.

We were losing light.

I got it, Mitch said from the back seat as he reached into his big bag and retrieved

a pair of bolt cutters.

I had been so preoccupied with my own

roiling anger and sickening worry that I had barely registered Mitch bringing a large backpack

with him. Don, who sat in the front seat, raised his eyebrows at me while Mitch got out of the

vehicle and jogged up to the locked chain that held the gate closed.

I knew what he was thinking.

Button down Don was a stickler for the rules, and cutting through a chain so we could get into the abandoned mall was breaking the rules.

A part of me wanted to grab Don by the collar of his baby blue dress shirt and scream in his face.

It's my fucking son!

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