(Ashley)
I had been driving for almost two hours when the police found me.
I was not hiding. I had not gone anywhere specific. Just driven through the city while it woke up around me and told myself it was over and tried to believe it.
I was parked outside a coffee shop on the east side when I saw the patrol car pull up behind me in the mirror.
Two officers got out.
I did not move. Just sat there with my hands on the wheel and watched them walk toward my car.
The officer on the driver's side knocked on the window. I rolled it down.
"Ashley Haynes?" he said.
"Yes."
"Can you step out of the vehicle please?"
I got out. The morning air was cold. A few people on the pavement outside the coffee shop looked over and then looked away the way people did when they did not want to be involv
