Finding Georgina by Colleen Faulkner

Author:Colleen Faulkner [Faulkner, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

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Harper

I stand in the kitchen, alone, sipping a cup of coffee in semidarkness. The only light on is the one above the stove. I know I shouldn’t be drinking coffee at seven p.m. I’ll never sleep. It doesn’t matter; I’m not sleeping much anyway. And it’s not due to too much caffeine. It’s Georgina. It’s Remy. It’s Jojo.

Me.

Most of all, me.

I know nothing is ever quite as good as you think it’s going to be. I’m not naïve. But Georgina’s been here three weeks and our household doesn’t remotely resemble what I thought it was going to. What I dreamed of, for fourteen years, when I prayed to God to bring her home.

No one is getting along. No one can agree on anything. Except maybe their dislike of me.

No, that’s not true. Remy and Georgina are getting along great. She never gives him that dark-eyed stare. She never gets angry with him. Even though I make him be the bad guy whenever I need a bad guy. Remy was the one who told her she had to continue at Ursuline even though after three days she said she wasn’t going back. He told her she couldn’t get a part-time job. Not yet. And he’s the one who’s been putting her off for weeks about contacting Sharon. And now we know where she is.

I swear, I feel as if I’m living in an alternate universe. The woman who kidnapped my child, a woman in prison, has actually become a person in my life. Her name actually comes out of my mouth as if she were a neighbor or an acquaintance from church.

The house phone rings. I don’t pick it up. No one else does. I think we’re going to disconnect it. No one we want to talk to ever calls the house. Just telemarketers. Anyone we want to speak to has our cell numbers.

After the fourth ring, it stops. It’s the second or third time it’s rung today. I haven’t checked the messages in days. And certainly no one else in the house checks them. Last week someone called from a newspaper and left a phone number, making a reference to Georgina’s kidnapping. We’ve been fortunate that we’ve been able to keep her safe return out of the media. Remy and I had agreed we would give no interviews and we didn’t want any of the information released to the public. The fact that Georgina is still a minor helped make that happen. So, obviously I won’t be returning the reporter’s call.

I sip my coffee and fan myself with a takeout menu. Hot flash.

Friday we had our first family counseling session. It wasn’t a disaster, but it certainly wasn’t a roaring success. Mostly I talked. Georgina did the same thing she always does. She answered direct questions, but she didn’t elaborate. Remy’s the only one she will talk to. They’re in the living room right now, talking. I don’t know what they’re talking about, but I can hear their voices. They’re

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