Bundle of Joy by Annie Jones

Author:Annie Jones [Annie Jones]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Religious
ISBN: 9781460307243
Google: z2vrE2LaWywC
Amazon: B00ADI0SFG
Barnesnoble: B00ADI0SFG
Publisher: Love Inspired
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

They rode for an hour or so, then brushed down the horses, fed them and headed back to town.

After that, and on top of a shift at the café, Jax was bone tired. Shelby had known he would be. Had she done it so he’d go back to his bunk and rest, instead of pushing her to go through her old photos to see if any faces sparked an idea of who might have left Amanda?

She wasn’t trying to throw things off course. Not on purpose. But if they didn’t get around to it, well, she wasn’t going out of her way to make it happen.

Over the next two days, she found herself doing just about anything to keep the two of them—the three of them, since Amanda was always with them—busy. Too busy to get around to unpacking old photo albums, much less combing over them for faces.

The young woman who had been so certain a week ago about what she wanted to do now couldn’t seem to make herself do anything, except care for Amanda and spend time with Jax.

Nothing else seemed to matter. The clock was ticking. Jax had to leave for Florida in two days, max. That made him work all the harder to try to make some progress on the case.

Shelby just wanted to make the most of whatever time they had together. She hadn’t been the one to abandon Amanda. Whoever had done that knew what they had done, where they had left the baby and, according to Jax and Sheriff Andy, who they had left her with.

The story of the baby left at the Crosspoint Café had made the local papers, been covered by TV news in both Texas and Louisiana. They had taken the basic information to the Internet, and word had spread through social media. Sometimes it all made Shelby flinch.

Jax had concluded that whoever left Amanda had been desperate. For some reason they had done it without leaving a single clue as to their identity. What if pursuing them so aggressively was only fueling that desperation? What if it made things worse?

“I think you should make a plea.” Jax had met her in the parking lot behind the café shortly after seven that morning.

“But I didn’t do anything,” she protested as she worked Amanda out of her car seat. “Isn’t that something a criminal does?”

“Not a plea bargain. A plea.” He gestured with both hands folded together. Like that made it any clearer. “We do a video. If we’re right that whoever left Amanda wanted you to have her, that means they feel a special connection to you. They trust you.”

“I guess so.” She pulled Amanda close, holding the baby’s cheek against her own. Amanda snuggled in tight, winding her fingers through Shelby’s hair. Shelby sighed. “I mean, I know.”

Shelby did know. She had been fooling herself to think she’d ever be able to move forward in her life without having done every last thing possible to find that person.

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