Rebecca POV:
After Mrs. Klein lost a million, she also lost her fighting spirit to provoke me every day.
I hadn't met her at Klein Manor for three days straight.
Even Lilith would deliberately avoid me when she saw me, and I did not let down my guard at their retreat, always feeling that something else was going to happen.
For this reason I made a point of instructing the children to try to all play in their rooms and not in the garden if I wasn't home, which they didn't understand but agreed to do anyway.
I don't know if it was the absence of Lilith's harassment that made...