CHAPTER 13
“Jade? Excuse me. Are you awake?”
She jumped at the sound of the familiar voice, banging her head on some kind of shelf. “What in the …”
“Shh.” His tone was calming. Soothing. “It’s all right. It’s me, Ben. I just had a few questions for you.”
She blinked. Why wasn’t she in bed? How could she have fallen asleep?
“You’re in the church closet.” Ben reached down and picked up a wise man costume Jade had been holding.
Her brain wrenched in protest as every single horrible replay of last night crashed around her memory banks. “Did you find my daughter?” She stood again, this time knocking over a box of flannelgraph Bible characters before stepping out of the closet.
Glancing down the church hallway, she studied those around her, trying to figure out if Ben woke her up with goo
