Chapter Thirteen
Several Weeks Prior…
The Day Before Andie Disappeared
This was the third time they were together, the second time in the barn, but on this night, he didn’t come alone. As the scene took shape before her eyes, Andie remembered seeing Sir Blackstone eyeing the rafters in quiet contemplation the week before. By the time he returned, it would seem his scheme was well thought out.
The men with him took off their suit coats so they could build the cross, a homemade item they brought with them in pieces and hammered together on the barn floor for this occasion. While one hammered, the other installed pulleys in the beams above: four, two each in rafters that were approximately five feet apart. The pulleys two mounted in each beam were roughly six feet apart, making a neat re
