Chapter 15
The next few days pass quietly, almost with a feeling of an anti-climactic letdown. Rebecca and Paige heard nothing from Keith, which worried them. They heard, through the Skipton grapevine, that he had been forced to find lodging out of town at a small hotel. They weren’t all that surprised by this; they were aware Sarah had called on a few of her friends to make his stay as uncomfortable as possible. Erica reported in that the patrons of her bakery seemed to spread out more, taking up all the tables, leaving no space available for the young man when he came in to get his morning coffee.
The only person who befriended the newcomer was the mayor, and Hannah told Scott that the two of them spent a lot of time behind the mayor’s closed door. George was working hard on his comput
