Chapter Thirteen
POSY’S FACE WAS HOPEFUL when she saw Beatrice come through the door, but when Beatrice shook her head, it crumpled. “Oh, no,” she said, putting her hands to her face. “What happened, Beatrice?’
Beatrice quietly gave her the bad news. Posy’s gentle eyes filled with tears. “Oh, that poor girl.”
Beatrice reached out to give Posy a hug. Posy hugged her hard and then pulled back. She said with wide eyes, “And you found her. I’m so sorry, Beatrice. Sorry that you had to go through that.”
Beatrice shook her head. “It was better this way, Posy. What if Salome’s sister and daughter had found her? It would have been so much worse.”
Posy said sadly, “I just never thought that something this serious could have happened to her. I figured that maybe she had some car trouble because
