Chapter 24
Kim managed to distract herself helping Auntie Venus clean up, for a while, anyway.
They had dinner and breakfast dishes to wash and put away. BeeGirl’s red hair to sweep up. Guest room beds to change, and the usual Saturday laundry to get started.
When Auntie Venus declared the cleaning finished enough for the day, she settled herself into her great cushioned bowl of reading chair with her latest novel. She’d even changed into a strangely tame black silk pantsuit she’d brought back from Bali ages ago, and caught her hair back in a simple braid.
A clear sign of relaxation.
Kim had long-ago learned to trust her great aunt’s insistence on a mental break so she could let everything they’d discovered that morning percolate and sift and arrange itself in her brain. Even though K
