Episode 6. Your Laws vs. Our Laws

Paulina had left. Just after midnight on July 19, 2018, Paulina had grabbed her kids without warning and ran away from the train station with her father-in-law asleep on the couch.

Paulina's friend and former client Amber picked her up and they drove off into the night.

I just was like, thank you, thank you, thank you. She's like, don't worry about it, don't worry about it.

Paulina went to Amber's house. She settled into the guest room and Amber put on a movie for the kids.

And the house, I remember, it was so peaceful. Everything was super clean and it smelled so good.

And it felt like even though it was an hour, it was an hour of temporary peace.

Just an hour at Amber's. Because Paulina was afraid, Bobby and his family might try to track her down.

Pretty soon, Paulina said, her phone started going off.

My phone is ringing off the hook. Everybody is calling me.

They were texting me and they're like, you kidnap the kids, you kidnap the kids. It all felt so chaotic.

Bobby's like, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to say all that stuff. Please just come back with the kids and his mom is calling off the hook.

As you know, Bobby and his family wouldn't speak to me. So I don't know how they felt when Paulina left with the girls.

I also didn't get to see any text messages from this day. But Paulina said she got a bunch of them and then shut off her phone.

I literally feel like I was in such a shock.

In the wee hours of the night, Amber got Paulina a room at a nearby hotel.

And I went to sleep that night with the kids and it was just insane.

This meant it was real. She had done it. Like that was the night, the first night that I had officially left.

There was no turning back now.

But it was nothing compared to what was coming up next.

This is for told.

The next morning when Paulina woke up in the hotel room, her future was a completely blank page.

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