The Heiress

The parents of Baby Ruby leave the Tavistock, North Carolina, police station accompanied by the child’s nanny—and the last person to see Baby Ruby—Grace Bennett. It’s past eleven, Ruby!” It was a strange feeling, being caught between two lives. Same figure at twenty-eight and sixty-eight, she’d preen, throwing a look to Nelle, who always glowered back, her own body thinner, more wizened as she aged. It would serve her right if that shit is what finally made her heart give out. “So.