Chapter Three
Alice found herself in even more of a dither than usual for her tempestuous barely post-adolescent self. Her Uncle Chris had broken his usual pattern of tucking her into bed last night, explaining that he and his fiancée Diana needed to spend the evening on some urgent pre-wedding issues that had come up. And after all, the lovely blonde almost-nineteen-year-old and her handsome step-uncle agreed, she was a grown-up and about to depart right after their wedding for her new school in Switzerland. So why should she feel so unsettled by something so natural as a couple about to marry needing some time together?
Well, perhaps some of the restless young woman’s mood had to do with the complexity of her feelings towards her step-uncle. Her mother had been so flaky her entire life
