Chapter 56: Chapter 56

Daisy decided to press forward anyway. “Did something happen? To you, I mean?”

“What are you talking about?”

“You just…I mean, I don’t like Benton. I feel weird around him. But you’ve been really intense about him.”

“I’ve never met him.”

Daisy took a slow breath. “Maybe someone like him? I know you don’t really care about Riva Corley. Why do you want to go rescue her from the motel?”

Jo grunted. “I’m not a bad person, Daisy.”

“I didn’t say you are. But there’s something…You’re not acting like you’re just trying to help her out. You know?”

“I didn’t get, like, raped or whatever.”

Daisy exhaled. She hadn’t quite said that word to herself, but it had been lingering at the edges of her mind. Still, something in Jo’s tone told her that wasn’t the whole story. Daisy fiddled with the AC controls, trying to decide if she should ask another question.