CHAPTER TEN
Exhausted after many hours in the car, Emily saw that it was indeed just past midnight by the time she reached the inn and pulled up the drive. She parked up and shimmied out of the car, stretching her legs. She was stiff from the journey.
She headed into the inn and saw Lois on the reception desk covering the night shift. Music came from the speakeasy, which was often thrumming on a Saturday evening.
“Hey, Lois,” Emily said wearily.
Lois looked up and frowned. “I thought you were gone all weekend,” she said with an air of confusion.
“I had a change of plan.” Emily sighed. “Turns out I can’t stand to be in New York City anymore. Not even for an hour.” She thought of the disastrous party which had gone from fun to catastrophic in a record sixty-minute period.
“You drove al
