Come Home by Lisa Scottoline

Author:Lisa Scottoline
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Thriller, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-three

“Megan, hurry.” Jill didn’t want to miss the train to New York and hurried to the car under a clear, morning sky. Megan inched along, texting with her head down, her knapsack and swim bag hanging in the crook of her arm and banging against her legs. Jill unlocked the car, put her purse inside, and climbed in, starting the engine. “Megan, today.”

“Chill, Mom.” Megan opened the passenger door and tossed her bags onto the floor, then climbed into her seat, phone in hand. “We’ve got plenty of time.”

“No, actually, we don’t.” Jill could have launched into a lecture, but Megan had already returned to texting, absorbed. “What’s going on, if I may ask?”

“Just Courtney,” Megan answered, head down, and Jill steered down their street, waving to Janet Baker, who was leaving for work.

“Oh. I thought it was Guitar Hero.”

“No.” Megan looked over, frowning. “Mom, is Sam coming home? I heard you guys fighting, last night. Then he left.”

Jill almost braked in surprise. Megan didn’t need that kind of stress, especially now. “He slept at his lab, and he’ll be back tonight,” Jill answered, though she wondered if that was true. She hadn’t heard a word from Sam, nor had she sent him one.

“He doesn’t like Abby, does he?”

“He will when he gets to know her.”

“No, he won’t. I get it. She’s changed.” Megan checked her phone, which chimed to signal an incoming text. “I like the old Abby better than the new one, too. But I know the old one’s in there, somewhere, if that makes any sense.”

“It does.” Jill cruised down the street, joining the line of traffic heading to work, all the drivers sipping travel mugs of fresh coffee and making their first phone calls of the day, like a parade of distraction.

“I don’t want anything to happen to her.”

“Me, neither, and it won’t.”

“Do you think she’s, like, a runaway?”

“Honestly, no. It’s all right.” Jill patted her leg. “Tell me about you. What’s up today?”

“I have a French test.”

“Oh, Jeez.” Jill was a little out of touch. Normally they went over her French vocab together. “You ready?”

“Did Abby run away because of Sam?”

“No, not at all, and she didn’t run away. Like we said, she could be with a date, and we’re doing all we can to find her. Victoria went to the police, and they’re handling it. Don’t worry about Abby.”

Megan fell silent, looking down at the phone. “She was embarrassed that she barfed on the bed. Maybe if I was nicer about it—”

“No, that’s not it,” Jill interrupted, to nip that thought in the bud. “It was nothing you did, and she didn’t run away. I don’t know where she is, but she’ll turn up. Honey, please try and put her out of your mind.”

“But if she’s like a missing person, like on TV, we have to hurry.” Megan’s forehead wrinkled. “They say you only have forty-eight hours, Mom.”

“Don’t worry,” Jill said, with more confidence than she felt, and Megan’s phone chimed again, but she ignored it, her gaze searching.

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