Chapter 60 Involvement

(Ruby)

I hadn’t been able to sleep all night. Mabel and Miles were like my very own babies. I had nursed them, fed them, and raised them. I could not imagine anything happening to them.

Ever since I had found out, I had been trembling.

Jack had been awake with me all night and throughout the morning. I had been pacing the backyard and he had been standing by me, steady as a pillar. I broke down multiple times during the night. Jack held me together every single time. He had put a shawl over my shoulders and murmured comforting words over and over again.

“We’ve got both the police as well as the intelligence after them, Ruby,” he had said, “I’m certain the children will be unharmed.”

I was so grateful that he was here through all of this.

I could not understand how my father could do such a thing. All my life, he had insisted on playing the villain in our lives: he had hurt Mama when Lydia and I were younger and he hadn’t allowed her to attend Lydia’s wedding either.

I simply could not