Chapter 15 ~ December 22 Crowded HouseFreda awoke to the sound of voices in the kitchen. It took her a moment to recall that Rita and Dave had arrived yesterday. Other than their hushed murmurs, the house was silent. Kenna would still be asleep. It was barely past 7 a.m. after all, far too early for her youngest to be up and around.
It rubbed on her that Kenna was so lazy, and it bothered her even more that Rita was a witness to it. Freda had raised her children to be responsible early risers, hard workers, the type of people to do right by your neighbor and—above all—to be respectable citizens. But here she was, with a layabout under her own roof and nothing she could do about it. Until now.
And then there was Rita. Freda didn’t know why Rita irritated her so much when she was in the ho
