She, however didn't have a plan of traveling alone and intended to travel with me.

She voiced out what had happened last night as the face turned ugly.

"Why didn't you tell me last night? Did you call the cops?" I demanded.

Ruby nodded. "Yes, I called the police and are investigating now."

My own eyes lost their sparkle. Whatever hope I ever had for her parents was gone now. Ruby genuinely meant to cut them out of her life.

If the police were to discover that the person who had tried to drug and abduct her was doing so on instructions from her parents, she would not let it...