Chapter 26The doorbell jolted Abi out of a bad dream. She felt disoriented and lay still wondering if she had actually heard the bell, or had it been part of that unnerving nightmare? The tone sounded again. More awake now, she glanced at a clock. It was one forty-five in the morning.
She threw on a robe and quickly made her way across the landing to the guest bedroom beside Becky's art room. The telephone rang as she cautiously peered out the curtain to see Joe standing beside the Range Rover in the driveway with the cell phone to his ear.
Abi rapped on the windowpane. He pulled his collar close and looked up as the wind bent tree branches and made his hair stand up. Downstairs, she opened the door quickly. He looked bedraggled, like something had gotten hold and shaken him. “What are y
