Chapter 36

Wes parked the car in front of the house. She waited for him while he picked up the map from his room. So many things were going on in her head as she anxiously bit her lip although what she could not stop thinking about was who that old woman was. Her best guess was that she was someone from her father's adoptive family. If not that, then Willow had no idea of her identity.

Wes came back in a minute and they drove to the university.

Hand in hand, Wes and Willow sneaked past the guard who was sleeping soundly on his chair and dreaming about a lavish home and a hot wife.

They entered the library through a window that Wes unhinged.

It was quiet, too quiet, and dark. Willow turned on the flashlight on her phone and they made their way to the underground level, where hundreds of books sat on the shelves.

"Hold this."

She handed the phone to him and walked to the center of the floor, in between the rows and columns of shelves.

He wa