Mother, Daughter: A BRAND NEW totally addictive psychological thriller with a shattering final twist (Suspense Fiction) by Anya Mora
Author:Anya Mora [Mora, Anya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books psychological thrillers, suspense and crime
Published: 2024-10-28T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter 14
Ruby
The last thing I need right now is a call from my agent. Chelsea Madison is ruthless, calculating, and so damn good at her job. Sheâs also increasingly persistent at weekly check-ins. I pick up without thinking, instantly regretting it.
âHey,â she says, âso howâs the book coming?â Her voice is sing-songy. Iâm guessing sheâs had a glass or two of white wine. I look at the time. On the East Coast itâs after dinner. Sheâs probably returning from some fancy-pants restaurant in the city, calling from a taxi cab. I have this inclination because Iâve been at these fancy-pants dinners with her and Iâve been with her in the taxi cab when she calls other clients asking for an update.
âHey, Chels,â I say, âitâs really a bad time.â
âWhy? Because you donât want to tell me you have clocked zero additional chapters this week? You know the deadlineâs coming up. Weâre going to need something. I need some pages to present to the team.â
âNo, I get that. Itâs just, everything is really bad right now,â I say. My voice starts cracking.
âThe story? Why? Okay, we can go over the plot again.â
âNo, not the story. My actual life, Chelsea.â I swallow. âI donât have chapters done. Yes, the bookâs shit. Yes, we should probably go over the plot sometime and start from scratch probably actually, because itâs all really bad, butââ
âOkay, take a deep breath. Start from the beginning. Whatâs going on, Ruby? Last week you werenât feeling the story. But not like this. Whatâs happened in the last few days?â
âA lot,â I tell her. I tell it all. Dodge is upstairs sleeping, which is good because I donât think he got any sleep last night. Earlier he told me he had tossed and turned all night, imagining the worst happening to his sister.
Now, with the house quiet, I give in to the truth, telling Chelsea everything, tears in my eyes as I tell her that Maple is gone.
âWow, this is all so shocking. It could be a story in and of itself.â
âDonât say that,â I say, my stomach falling, her words hitting closer to home than she realizes. Itâs exactly what Iâve done before, use my life as fodder, and look where itâs got me, in a web of secrets, and an agent who thinks I can write a book when I canât.
âBut whereâs Maple?â Chelsea asks. âI mean, actually, where do the cops think she might be?â
âThere are no leads,â I say. âWell, I guess there was one lead. Mapleâs boyfriend thought maybe his dad had something to do with it.â
âOh, shit.â
âI know, right? Well, the dad got cleared, but poor Jude, how is he supposed to live with the man now that he just accused of being a predator?â
âHoly shit,â Chelsea says.
âI know, right? I mean, itâs good he spoke up, if he thought that maybe thereâs some chance that his dad was involved. At least now itâs ruled out. But how does that relationship ever get repaired,
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