Set up: Teri is on the run after witnessing a murder. She's hiding out in her sister's convent in San Antonio when the Mother Superior tells her a detective from New York is waiting to speak to her.
Six Sentences: The moment she’d dreaded had arrived. Teri Slaughter’s stomach knotted up in fear. It’s over. They found me.
A deep breath released some of the tension in her shoulders. As she forced her leaden feet toward the conference room, the thought flickered through her mind of running outside and disappearing in the streets.