The Inn at Lavender Bay (The Lavender Bay Chronicles Book 1) by Brouder Michele

Author:Brouder, Michele
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

The radio played in the background while Lenore did some sewing, sitting in a chair in the parlor. Her current project was a skirt for the kitchen sink, and she was working on the rod pocket at the top of it. After a while, she set it aside, stood, and rubbed her hand along her aching lower back. A cup of tea was called for but on her way to the kitchen, she peered out every downstairs window to see if she could see anything going on. But all was dark and quiet.

She made herself a cup of tea and a small plate of saltine crackers and took them back to the parlor, trying to get comfortable in the chair. She ate a few crackers and set the plate and half-empty teacup on the end table. With a sigh, she picked up a magazine and flipped through it, not really seeing the pages. Finally, she laid that aside, too, and stood and began to pace back and forth to the front door, peering out the window, searching for any sign of headlights. Shortly after ten, she looked out a back window and thought she saw lights in the distance, further down the beach, but then there was nothing. Only darkness.

Despite the fear and worry that had consumed her all evening, by eleven, she began to get drowsy, and started nodding off in her chair. At each little sound, her head snapped up, and she half expected to see John walking through the front door. There was a crick in her neck from dozing in an uncomfortable position. She stretched and yawned. Placing her hands on the arms of the chair, she pushed herself up and went around the downstairs, checking all the locks on the windows and doors, just like John did every night before they went upstairs to bed. In the past, she’d thought John had been too overprotective but now that she was alone in the house and it was getting late, she could see the sense in making sure she was safe and secure. It dawned on her that she’d never spent a night alone. When she lived at home, sometimes her parents went away for a short trip, but Laura and Hilda were always in the house with her.

A few minutes before midnight, she made herself another cup of tea, deciding if John wasn’t home in half an hour, she’d go up to bed, but she’d leave a lamp on downstairs for him. He could tell her all about what had happened tomorrow morning over breakfast. While she drank her tea, she picked up the magazine again and by twelve thirty, she’d dozed off and the magazine had slid out of her hand and lay on the floor at her feet.

A banging on the front door, punctuated by the doorbell buzzing, woke her from her sleep, and it took her a moment to realize where she was and why she wasn’t upstairs in her bed.

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