Back at the tiny apartment she’d rented, Felix dove into more Cessna research while Julie took a quick shower. The streaming water gave her the sense of being swept back in time by a fast-moving river. Spending time at the Reinhards brought back so many intense memories.
Her mother had been a free-spirit gypsy type who’d used her cooking skills wherever she wandered. But once Julie reached the age of ten, Mom had decided they needed to be in one place. The job with the Reinhards had seemed perfect. When she and her mother had first moved in, Julie had been terrified of the Reinhards. She’d stayed away from the big house and played in the woods by herself, climbing trees and making up adventure stories.
Then one day, when she was eleven and Savannah was twelve, Savannah had “run away fro
