Hopeless by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

Author:Susan Kiernan-Lewis [Kiernan-Lewis, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: San Marco Press
Published: 2016-11-30T23:00:00+00:00

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After zooming in on the map, Mia saw that the phone was probably not right in the water but on the shoreline, thirty miles northeast of Atlanta, between I-985 and Flowery Branch. She muted her own phone so she wouldn’t be tempted to answer it and then have to lie—or worse, tell the truth—and then jammed it in the car holder on the dashboard so that the map was easily visible as she drove.

She was pretty sure Jack would be busy for the next four hours but that didn’t normally keep him from texting her.

As she maneuvered her way through Sunday traffic on I-85 and headed northeast, she felt torn about whether to tell Lowenstein what she’d found. Nobody knew more than Mia that time was of the essence right now.

But she also knew that if she told them she wouldn’t be able to get anywhere near the phone.

And right now it was the only lead she had—the only thing that might help her find who Mindy had talked to just before she disappeared—or with whom Mindy was recently having problems.

Granted, that was probably a fairly large pool even on the best of days.

On the other hand Mia also knew that if things went south and Maxwell ever found out that Mia knew about the phone and hadn’t told him or the Feds, she might as well go sign up for another family right now because they were done.

She wasn’t sure that wouldn’t include her own mother.

She pulled open the glove box to find the burner phone she’d bought a few weeks ago just in case. Now she was glad she had the forethought, because she didn’t have time to pull off the Interstate and find a Wal-Mart to buy one. And she was going to need it.

She was also grateful that most of the traffic seemed to be people driving back from Lake Lanier after the weekend. There was almost nobody driving north away from the city.

With one eye on the road and one eye on the map with the little blinking icon that represented Mindy’s phone, Mia was careful to stay just ten miles over the speed limit.

The drive north gave her a time to think. Her first thought was to give up a grateful prayer that LaShaun had seen someone of interest—maybe even the kidnapper himself. Granted, the description of the man was pretty generic—tall, brown hair, big shoulders—but he had a mustache and facial hair which wasn’t all that common.

Of course, he’d probably shaved since then.

Mia pulled her cellphone out of its holder, thankful that the traffic was so light, and located the photo she’d found on the Internet of Julie Gillen’s husband Edward. He matched the description perfectly even down to the facial hair. She texted the jpeg to LaShaun.

It occurred to Mia that Tad also matched LaShaun’s description as did Sanford Lowe if you didn’t get a good look at him.

Mia had no idea what Gary Dyson looked like. His profile photo on Facebook had been a falcon—whatever that meant.

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