BlackJack (A Standish Bay Romance Book 1) by Donovan Christine

Author:Donovan, Christine [Donovan, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christine Donovan
Published: 2015-02-14T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Shannon wasn’t really asleep, although her eyes were closed and her body relaxed from sheer exhaustion. The ache in her heart kept her awake. All sorts of scenarios kept playing in her head and they were all bad. There were times she damned her creative mind because the things she conjured up were far-fetched and not realistic.

While she continued driving herself crazy with her imagination, she welcomed the interruption of the phone ringing. It was her detective friend, Scott, she’d hired to find Cameron, and he had a lead. Someone with Cameron’s description had bought a bus ticket, but the older gentleman who sold him the ticket couldn’t remember if he bought a ticket to California or Chicago. Scott would dig deeper and he told her not to lose hope. He would find him.

Before he hung up, she confided in him about her incident in Chicago and asked if he would please look into that and Cole’s case as soon as Cameron was found? He agreed, although it didn’t make her feel any less burdened right now.

Unfortunately, Shannon knew it wasn’t easy to find runaways if they didn’t want to be found. So she prayed Cameron would want to be found once he had time to calm down and think sensibly. Being on your own at sixteen was not only lonely, it was scary. And thank God he’d taken his guitar. He would be all the easier to trace because of it.

When she heard John’s voice inside her house, she tensed and then realized how hard this must be for him as well. And she tried her hardest not to blame him or resent him because of the circumstances. Deep down in the bottom of her heart she knew John would never intentionally cause harm to their son.

The past two days she’d fought an overwhelming urge to call Cole. She needed to hear his voice and let the sound of it engulf her and soothe her, but instead she played his music and thought of him. She must have dosed off because the rain stopped, the wind no longer howled and she could make out moonbeams shining through the breaks in the clouds. The BlackJack CD had also ended. All was quiet, too quiet and it pricked her nerves how silent her house appeared to be.

Had everyone left?

Did they all fall asleep?

Shannon dressed and descended the stairs to find Mitch and John, sitting side by side on the couch watching television. Darkness had swallowed the house except for the glow from the fireplace and the light from the television.

“Hi. Did everyone leave?”

Mitch and John looked at her at the same time, both looking weary as hell and showing every bit of their ages. It was amazing what stress and worry could do to people. And she could only imagine how badly she looked right about now.

It was Mitch who finally answered her.

“Yeah, they left.” Mitch went to get up. “Can I get you anything?”

“Sit. I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself.

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