Oklahoma Sunshine by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945038488

Jason didn’t know what to do with himself. He’d been to Sunny's place, but there was no sign of Sunny, and a lot of her things were missing. Like she'd packed. Like she knew she was leaving him.

He and his brothers had checked all over town, asking everyone who knew her, but no one had a clue where she might’ve gone. It was like she’d vanished from the face of the earth.

She was in trouble. He knew it down deep in his bones. That trumped everything else. He could be mad at her for lying to him later. Demand an explanation for all of this later. But that took a back seat to her being okay. He had to help her. He had to make sure she was safe. It wasn't modern thinking, it wasn't thinking at all. His heart was calling the shots, not his head.

He’d finally convinced his brothers that he’d be okay if they returned to their lives and their wives. And since then he’d called Sunny's phone a hundred times. Nothing.

He clung to Jimmy’s assurance that the police were looking for her and had more resources than he did. Jimmy said he should stick near home tonight, that Sunny would likely come back, because she’d left her car in his driveway. That made some kind of sense, but he wasn't gonna be able to comply.

His cell phone went off, which, at this time of night, meant something big. He glanced at it fast before answering, disappointed it wasn’t Sunny calling. “Jimmy, you find her?”

“Jason…um. No. Not…look, there’s no reason to think the worst, but–”

“I’m already thinking the worst so spit it out.”

“Sorry. We found Eve’s car out by the old Yancy Motor Lodge.”

“Just the car? Anyone inside?”

“Well…we can’t tell yet. The car…Jason, the car burned.”

“Burned?” His heart almost beat through his chest. “What do you mean, burned? You mean…burned?”

“We’ve got a team going over it. There’s no point in you coming out here. I’ll call you as soon as I know anything for sure.”

“I’m coming out there.” He disconnected, picked up his jacket and keys on the way out the door, jumped into his truck and drove through the darkest night he'd ever seen. His heart broke a little more with every mile. What if this was it? What if he'd lost Sunny forever?

He didn’t know that, though. He didn’t know Sunny was in the car when it burned. He didn't know anything, so he tried to hold it all in. And he did okay right up until he pulled over behind a half-dozen police and fire vehicles with strobing lights. He walked past them over cracked blacktop to the abandoned motel’s parking lot. There were spotlights set up around it, aimed at a charred black frame that used to be a car. It felt like his heart fell straight to his feet, and his chest got all tight.

He ran closer, and when a cop he didn’t know started up to him, Jimmy Corona said, “Hold off, hold off, that’s Jason, that’s my brother-in-law.

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