Shelley and Peter had been wealthy, and as I approached the beautiful Victorian mansion which they called home, I wondered how their parents were taking the divorce. They were part of what passed for “high society” in Dove’s Creek, and this must have been scandalous, but I hadn’t heard much about it.
Of course, since I’d been living in Dove’s Creek for a long time, I’d seen their family fortunes grow from scratch. It took a lot of the mystery and intrigue out of high society when you knew they’d made their wealth in unscrupulous ways. Spoiler alert: it involved slavery.
As I rang the doorbell, a pang of guilt came over me for disturbing Shelley. This would be a difficult conversation to have. I had a couple of spells in my repertoire to help ease the discussion, but I didn’t like using t
