Bancroft Library Hopedale Novels & Stories

She had spent more than an hour carefully selecting a crib, asking detailed questions about safety features and materials. I delivered it to the boutique inside a card and left it with the manager, knowing that Victoria would be back. “If you want to meet Hope, it is in public. Seattle Central Library, main reading room tomorrow at 2 PM. Come by yourself or don’t come at all.” I wasn’t really waiting for an answer anyway. (Somehow I’d anticipated that she would vanish like this once I made contact. But an hour later, my phone buzzed with a text from an unfamiliar number.