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I lifted a shoulder and lowered it helplessly.
“She’ll talk about it when she’s ready,” she said as she slumped into her chair.
The woman had been up all night too. All this stress couldn’t be good for her.
“You must be tired—”
“Is that your polite way of telling me I look like death warmed over?”
Maybe it wasn’t appropriate, given what had happened, but I smiled, grateful for a moment of normalcy.
“No. It’s my way of saying I’ll take the early shift.” I winked.
“You’re lucky you’re handsome.” She pointed an old, crooked finger at me before she stood. Then she stepped in front of me and cupped my face. “I’m glad you’re around.”
I was too. I hadn’t realized how much until tonight.
“You just don’t know him that well,” Beau chimed in.
“We’ll have to do something about that, won’t we?”
I kissed her cheek. “Any special instructions?”
“Feed Sadie first.” She started up the stairs.
“She’s upstairs with Pepper.”
“That dog will be down for breakfast. Mark my words.”
Once she disappeared, my brother and sister surrounded me.
“What did she say? Word for word.” Beau shoved at my shoulder.
I appreciated that she cared so much about Pepper too.
“Not much of anything.”
Beau narrowed her eyes. “Was she kidnapped?”
I dropped into the chair Miss Adeline had vacated. “I don’t know.”
“Where was she?” My sister sat on the desk beside me.
“I don’t know.”
A growl of frustration that matched how I felt came from her direction. “What do you know?”
“Nothing. She basically said she has a decision to make and that monsters are real.”
Ash put her head in my lap. I hadn’t realized how much I needed her comfort.
“It was him.”
Beau and I snapped our heads toward Lincoln. He shoved his hands in his pockets.
“Do you know any other monsters?”
His question was loaded. There was nothing our father wasn’t capable of, but this?
