Chapter 34
Kim parked in front of Kay’s Cafe, glad she’d gotten into town in time to beat the after-church crowd. Only a few other parking spaces along the wide main street were occupied, and even fewer booths inside were. If she’d waited until eleven or later, every space inside and out would have been packed.
A lifelong habit of getting up at the ass-crack of dawn, as Steph used to say, had its advantages.
The sun hadn’t quite cleared the ridge and the Lightning Stone yet, so the street and the town were still in deep shadows. Even so, the air was much warmer today, almost muggy. More like May instead of March.
The odds of some kind of storm rolling in today jumped higher in Kim’s resurgent weather sense. The t-shirt and jeans she wore wouldn’t be nearly warm enough in a few hours.
