CHAPTER THIRTY
riddle me this
Benny pops by two hours into Amalie’s work with a fresh pot of her favorite tea in hand. Sativa needs a diaper change, a snack, and a nap, and Auntie Dakota is only equipped to manage one of those tasks. It’s decided to move Amalie into Rupert’s office so she can feed the baby and pump breast milk for Benny to take his shift on baby duty, but the pump contraption she pulls from the diaper bag looks frighteningly medieval. I’ll leave her to it.
As we edge closer to noon, Thalia Island residents trickle in for updates and to see what they can do. The core group agrees we will keep the goings-on within quiet; the fewer people who know what we’re doing, the better.
Wes, Rupert, and Dakota leave to go across to Vancouver to obtain the ransom money. Len and I, a
