Chapter 17“I barely slept last night, Nana D. It's a good thing I don't have to teach any classes today. Maybe I'll swing by Danby Landing after tracking down Timothy. I need to know what he and his mother talked about just before she died.” Nightmares about my mother-in-law's henchman had haunted me every hour while I'd laid in bed trying to forget our encounter in the parking lot. My restless body twitched every time a tree branch scratched the roof, or the wind whistled through the eaves. Sleeping in the attic bedroom had both its benefits and its downsides. Last night was definitely a downside.
“Good boy, that's the priority for today. I'll ask Eustacia to come by for tea at three o'clock. It'll do her some good to get out of that mansion. It's sucking her dry worse than an evening li
