Forever Family (The Forever Series Book 5) by Deanna Roy

Author:Deanna Roy [Roy, Deanna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: deanna roy, ugly cry, rachel van dyken, colleen hover, bestseller, contemporary romance, New Adult Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Casey Shay Press
Published: 2016-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14: Jenny

The baby was sucking like a wee vacuum cleaner when I got the frantic text from Corabelle.

Tina has taken off.

I instinctively shifted Phoenix closer to my body, a flash of fear coursing through me. Tina had always been the one of us who acted the toughest but was the softest underneath.

It was super hard to type with the baby crushed against me, so I hit the call button instead.

“What do you mean?” I asked as soon as Corabelle answered.

Corabelle’s voice was frantic. “She and Darion were at Albert’s studio, and she just bolted. Drove off in her car.”

“When?”

“Yesterday. Darion thought she’d come back eventually, but now it’s been a whole night and she won’t answer calls or texts.”

“I got a chipper little text from her about six yesterday,” I said. “She left after that, I guess?”

“Yes, I got one too right then. Darion said he got there around seven.”

“What the hell happened?” I glanced down at Phoenix, wincing at the word hell. Forget Mama or Dada, her first four-letter word was probably going to be a lot more colorful.

“Darion said they found some old work of Albert’s, some unicorns, and she just freaked out and took off.”

“Damn.” I shot another doleful look at the baby. I couldn’t even think without cursing. “This is Tina through and through. Does he have any idea where she is?”

“None,” Corabelle said. “He sounds pretty panicked, but I can’t do anything to help. Gavin just went back for surgery.”

“That’s today?” Gavin had scheduled his vasectomy reversal shortly after they got the money. The docs said his best chance was to do it as soon as possible, while he was young. Not to wait until they wanted to get pregnant.

“I’m stuck,” Corabelle said. “He’s going to be down for a little while. I don’t even know where she’d go.”

“Me neither.” Phoenix slipped off the latch, asleep. I shifted her on my arm. “Maybe when it comes down to it, we don’t really know her that well.”

“I was thinking the same thing,” Corabelle said. “We hang out with her. We’re friends. But we don’t know anything about her past. Where she’d go.”

“She was doing that painting on that cliff. You think she’d go there?” I asked.

“Darion went there after he checked the hospital. No dice.”

“Where else?” I shifted in the chair in preparation for putting Phoenix down. It was harder to think with her there, as if my jitters couldn’t jitter with her in my arms.

“With Albert gone, I don’t really know who she hangs out with,” Corabelle said.

“What about that girlfriend of Albert’s?”

“Layla hasn’t seen her.”

“Darion would know as much as us,” I said. I pinched the phone between my cheek and shoulder and carried the baby to her swing. I eased her down, holding my breath that she wouldn’t wake.

“I know,” Corabelle said. “He’s all out of ideas.”

I walked swiftly away from Phoenix now that she was down. “Okay, the baby’s asleep, and I can talk better,” I said. “What should we do?”

“I don’t have a clue,” Corabelle said.

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