Invisible Ellen by Shari Shattuck

Author:Shari Shattuck
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

Janelle,

You don’t know us, but who we are is not important. There is someone who needs you very much, and maybe someone else who can help you as well. Your brother, Sam, is a father. He had a little girl, not even a day old. She is at Saint Vincent’s hospital. Her mother, Cindy, is desperately in need of a friend. She cannot take care of the baby, so she has decided to give it up for adoption. She did not know of your existence either until last night, just before she went into labor. She is confused and alone, and she misses Sam very much. Perhaps you can help each other.

It was signed simply, “Two friends.” Ellen wanted to make it “three friends” but Justice begged off. “This is your good deed,” he said.

“Okay, we’re here. How do you want to do this?” Justice asked as he slipped the car into an available parking space.

“I kind of thought you’d take it in,” his sister said.

He sighed. “Of course you did. Okay, what does she look like?”

After a brief pause, Ellen realized that she would have to answer that.

“She’s tall, slim, dark skinned, with pale gold, almost greenish eyes, very beautiful, and one leg is shorter than the other,” Ellen said.

Justice frowned. “Can you be more specific?”

“I don’t remember anything el—” Ellen began, but Temerity cut her off with a smack to Justice’s arm.

“He’s joking. Go on,” she told her brother. “Just give it to her and leave. Tell her you’re the messenger, or something like that.”

“Don’t they always shoot the messenger?” Justice asked, switching off the engine and unbuckling his seat belt.

“That’s only when it’s bad news,” Temerity said brightly, earning herself a look that only Ellen could appreciate. He got out of the car. They sat in silence for exactly three seconds and then Temerity blurted out, “What do you think she’ll do?”

“What do you think she’ll do?”

Temerity hummed for a second and then said, “She’ll go, right away. Of course she will. And I think we should be there.”

“Wh . . . wha . . . what?” Ellen stuttered.

“Don’t you want to see what happens? How she reacts?” Then before Ellen could answer, she said, “I do! And that means you’re coming, since, you know, I don’t have the ability to process light and whatnot.”

Justice returned within five minutes and told them that he’d handed over the note and gotten the heck out of there.

“Great, to Saint Vincent’s,” Temerity said.

But Justice protested. “Okay, now you’re crossing the line into creepiness. It’s one thing to find out someone needs help and make a connection for them to get that need met, but it’s another to spy on the event.” Temerity opened her mouth to object, but he went on. “No, I won’t. I’ll tell you what I will do. You know my friend Amanda?”

“Sure, the one who finished premed and actually became a doctor?”

“Yes, her, smart-ass. Guess where she works.”

“Tell me it’s Saint Vincent’s,” Temerity begged. “Say the words.

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