Not My Sister's Keeper by Emily Shiner

Author:Emily Shiner [Shiner, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-09T22:00:00+00:00

MIA

“Dad,” I say, and his name is the only thing that I’m able to choke out before my throat closes up and I can’t speak.

“Oh, Mia,” my dad says, but he sounds so far away, the connection is so bad, that my name comes out garbled. “Mia, are you okay? What do the police know?”

Turning, I watch as Barnwell walks back up to the porch. That was fast. She was supposed to go talk to my dad or Kelsey or someone, I don’t know. All I know is I need someone to help talk me down off the ledge and it certainly isn’t going to be my mom.

Not when I think she honestly believes I had something to do with all of this.

“Nothing,” I say, keeping an eye on Barnwell. She ascends the stairs, moving like an arrow towards my mother. “Nothing. They don’t know anything. They’re out here with a dog and are walking around and have no clue where she is.” The damn bursts and tears stream down my cheeks. “Mom told them that she thinks you might have something to do with it.”

It’s not an accusation hanging in the air between us, but I do need to hear from him. I need to hear his side of the story. I need to know if he’s going to just laugh and deny it or if there’s anything to what my mom is saying.

There’s only a brief moment of silence before he responds and I immediately feel myself relax. “Darling, I’m in DC for work. Been here since yesterday. There’s no way that I could have made it back to take Emma and then flown back out here. I just talked to an officer about it.”

“Barnwell,” I offer, and he agrees.

“That’s her. Not exactly Miss Personality, is she?”

I chuckle. It feels like a slap in the face to Emma but I can’t help it. It just feels good to have some sense of normalcy when everything else honestly feels like it’s all falling apart. “She’s not great, no. But I guess it doesn’t really matter if we don’t like her as long as she finds Emma. Dad, do you know who would do something like this?” I pause, not wanting to say the next words, but knowing that I have to. “I think that Mom thinks I did.”

He’s silent for a moment and I check the connection. Nope, the call wasn’t dropped, which means that he’s thinking something but doesn’t want to tell me.

“Mia, I don’t want to ask you this, but I have to. Do you know anything that might have happened? Is there any chance that you heard something or saw something, or —”

Heat flushes through my body and I cut him off. “You think that I did this. Are you serious right now? Did Barnwell tell you that she thought it was a possibility that I was involved?” Shock rolls over me like a thunderstorm out on the ocean. I feel anger taking root, anchoring me to the ground.

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