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Chapter 27

“I’m sorry I’m late!” Cassie yelled, as a manner of greeting as she pushed open the door to Books-A-Plenty, dragging Aaron and Lily behind her.

The woman who had been pushing off the last of the bookstore’s dirt into a dustpan looked up and smiled. Amanda Collins was an old friend of Cassie’s mum who ran Books-A-Plenty alongside her novelist husband, Timothy. She had been much older than Cassie’s mum but the two of them had gotten along well. Amanda had given Cassie her first job in the bookstore when she was just thirteen and Cassie had found it hard to quit ever since then. Hence, her shifts had changed from two hours after school to as long as she felt like on Sundays. Back when Cassie’s parents were still alive, Amanda had voluntarily babysat for them and had done it without pay, claiming that they were the ones doing her a favor as all of her grandchildren lived too far away to be properly babied. After Mr. and Mrs. Peters had passed, leaving Cassie to care for th
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