Chapter Twenty-Six
Darius had to check on the firefighting crew, so Kate and Emma led the two teenagers into the farmhouse. Emma was still muttering furiously as she turned on the light in the mud room.
“Setting fire to my shed. What a stupid, stupid thing. What was the damn point?” As the kids crowded into the entry, she added, “Take off your shoes!”
Kate tugged her grandmother into the warm living room, ahead of the kids. “I want to hear what they have to say, okay?”
“So do I!”
“Just don’t scold them the way you did me at that age. They’re not used to you.”
Emma scorched her with an indignant glare. “You didn’t set my shed on fire.”
“I could list twenty things I did that made you just as mad. I’m not saying they don’t deserve punishment. Just give me a chance to talk to them first
