Chapter Four
As she feared, Beatrice did not sleep well that night. She was unnerved by finding Annabelle. After tossing and turning in the bed for a while, she got up to keep from waking Wyatt. She ate some of June Bug’s cake and then found Wyatt’s biography on John Calvin and fell asleep within the hour. It was the kind of sleep where you didn’t even know it was coming, so she woke up with the sun streaming through the windows, a crick in her neck from her odd position in the armchair, and Noo-noo looking at her with concern.
Beatrice slowly stretched until her body felt like it was somewhat back to normal. Then she got ready for her day and let Noo-noo out while Wyatt stirred and readied for work.
They were just finishing their breakfast of ruby-red grapefruit and biscuits when there
