Chapter 7
The lights were still on in the office. It was empty and silence rung around her as she opened the door.
Becky closed the door behind her. She swallowed. The body was still lying there. It was as if she had expected the body to move, for Miss Essie to be asleep. She wasn't. She was dead and lying at the desk.
Becky hoped she had died quickly. Becky didn't want to think about a woman she looked up to having a painful death.
It was something to add to the mental list of things she kept to tell her aunt, if Pauline ever returned. Everyone else thought that Pauline was dead, but Becky kept hoping she was alive, even though it had been years since anyone had heard from her.
Pauline was still alive. It seemed important to remember that now. Now was she was staring at the dead body
