Chapter Forty-NineSea Scope: Twenty years ago
Since Wanda didn't own a car and Bible school was only a few blocks from the inn, she and Wendy walked there on Saturday mornings. Sometimes Wanda would return to Sea Scope and help start breakfast before returning to the school to pick up her daughter, but there were days she just felt like spending the hour on a bench outside the school waiting to walk Wendy back to the inn after class. Occasionally, she'd talk to one of the other moms who were also waiting, but she often felt uncomfortable with them. At twenty-six, she was the youngest, and a few of them mistook her for a babysitter before she'd introduced herself at the beginning of the summer.
That morning, she was in no mood to sit with the other mothers. Her heart was heavy. Michael ha
