Never There by Nicole Loughan

Author:Nicole Loughan [Loughan, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Spot for Stories
Published: 2024-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

After a hard night of labor, and one birth plan thrown completely out the window, Jen gave birth to a happy healthy baby boy, born two weeks early. Her husband developed an eye twitch when he heard what had brought on the early labor.

The police met us outside of her birthing room; this time Detective Fowler had backup from Captain Fowler and Sargent Sarita. He was not pleased that we had taken up sleuthing on our own, gotten shot at, and sent a woman into early labor, but we gave him a solid lead on a possible suspect for Charity’s murder and Tammy’s disappearance.

“I’m sure we were close to finding her,” I said. “What did you find out about the phone?”

“We had some burner phone; it didn’t have a plan on it. Tammy had missed some payments, so we thought it might be hers. We weren’t thinking to track Charity’s phone.”

“The key is the farm, and it’s going to be up where we were. I’m sure of it,” I said.

“So, you solved the mystery of your missing town?” he asked.

“I think we did,” I said.

“I’ll tell my sister. It’s been bothering her all week.”

“We didn’t find the farm though.”

“I’m going to find it,” Fowler said. “We’re going to go up there today. We have some help coming in from the locals.”

“Do you think it’s too late for Tammy? She stopped calling.”

“I don’t know. The phone probably died after this many days without a charge. I wouldn’t count her out just yet.”

Jen had her baby at the hospital where David worked, and we were there so long he slunk off to take a nap wherever residents sleep in a hospital. We saw him walk by later in the morning in his white coat and green scrubs. He looked like he’d had a shower, but he certainly didn’t look well-rested.

He nodded to Corey and Missy when he walked by and stopped to say good morning to me.

“Good morning, Doctor David,” Neil interrupted, and David managed a pained smile at him.

It wasn’t long before it was just Missy and me at the hospital in day-old clothes, as the Coreys both had work to do. My grandmother was enroute to pick us up.

After the police left and the baby had arrived, we both crashed, the surge of adrenaline wearing off. We sat low in the boxy hospital chairs. If we’d had even a bit of comfort, we would have been fast asleep.

“Do you think that guy has Tammy?” Missy asked.

I hadn’t thought about it. My mind had been totally occupied with survival mode.

“Huh, I don’t think so. She wasn’t in that car.”

“Why would he shoot at us?” she asked.

“Well, that’s the weird part; he didn’t even shoot at us, did he? It was more of a warning. Like he shot near us.”

“What was he trying to warn us about?”

“Stay away from Tammy, I guess.”

“But you don’t think he had her?”

“I wonder…”

“What?” she asked.

“I wonder if he was looking for her, too and didn’t want us to find her first.

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