Chapter Sixteen
This, of course, was the kiss of death for the quiet afternoon. As soon as Wilson left to get Mona, the library became the busiest place in the town of Whitby. What’s more, everyone needed to ask me a question.
When it was my break time, I hurried off to the lounge just as Luna was finishing up her own break and about to come out.
When Luna saw me, her eyes twinkled for the first real time that day. “Did you work some sort of magic, Ann?”
“Me?” I asked blankly.
“Yes, you! You’re being far too modest. All I know is, you had a meeting with Wilson and the next thing I knew my mother was here at the library and Wilson himself was her driver.”
Oh, of course. That’s how busy the afternoon had been—it had eradicated any thought of Mona and Wilson. “To be honest, I went in hi
