She cringed, eyes squeezing shut, at the guilt that flooded her when he finished speaking. All of a sudden she felt like she was abandoning him and not getting herself free of the grip of some terrorist... her father...
Picking at her sleeve, she rocked her body back and forth on the door frame, in and out of the office, "I just... have some things to do. The college board hearing. That's all..."
Lorna shrugged, more and more guilty and uncomfortable by the second. "I never said I wasn't coming back..." Which was true enough, even if that was what she had intended to be the case.