A knock at Kate’s bedroom door snapped her out from the abstraction in the book she seemed to be reading. She had gone over the same line again and again without remembering a single word.
“Come in,” she said sitting upright and flipping the book face down on the bed.
The door opened, Von entered first carrying several large boxes followed by two other people, who seemed to be the housekeepers on duty struggling with more boxes stacked up to their chin.
Kate scooted closer to the edge of the bed. “What on earth is all that?”
Von gave a mirthless smile as he set the boxes in orderly stacks on the floor. “These are for you ma’am.”
“For me?” She asked, her voice laced with astonishment as she climbed off the bed and approached them cautiously. She examined the boxes with her eyes and tu
