Chapter 15: Overhead the Plot

While lying in bed with her long eyelashes drooping and her big belly bulging, Josephine was unable to fall asleep, so she got up to take a glass of water downstairs. There was a faint light on in the kitchen, and it seemed that someone was there, and the sound of rustling and talking reached Josephine's ears, making her startled on the steps and not daring to move. Betsy pulled Aurelia and looked suspiciously at the darkened living room outside the kitchen before deliberately lowering her...