7:46 the next morning, my phone rang.
It was Grandpa.
He was already standing in the Hales’ driveway.
And when he told me who was standing beside him, I grabbed my keys and ran for the car.
PART 2
I broke two traffic habits and probably one law getting to Oakwood Estates.
When I pulled up to the Hales’ house at 8:10, I understood the phone call.
Standing in the driveway next to my seventy-one-year-old grandpa, in a wool coat that cost more than my car, was Margaret Whitmore.
If you’re not from our town, that name means nothing.
If you are, you just made the same face I did.
Margaret Whitmore owns the largest house in Oakwood Estates — the stone one on the hill that the whole neighborhood is quietly built around.
Her family founded the county hospital.
She chairs the board of the Brookfield Country Club.
