Sudden Recall by Lisa Phillips

Author:Lisa Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

An hour later Sienna was still staring at the movie ticket stub in her fingers. She glanced out the window of the SUV at the same number, the highway they were on. Dawn had barely broken. Her stomach rumbled. Bad gas station coffee didn’t really cut it, but finding the flash drive was more important.

“It’s coming up on the left.”

The second number on the ticket stub had been painted on the mile marker. The number zero-two came after it. The digits repeated through the time, the highway and the mile marker. What the number two related to, Sienna couldn’t figure out.

Parker pulled to the side of the road and she turned to him. “You really think this is for real?” He’d seemed convinced in her room, and he’d driven here like a man on a mission.

“You like puzzles.” He paused. “Actually, you said ‘treasure hunts.’ You’re a spy, and you hid something.” He shifted in his seat to face her. “I don’t think one thing in that shoebox was put there by accident. I think you were intentional with every piece of it, even the photos. Why keep mementos of a life that didn’t want you? That’s how you described them...your family. The only ones you had left—your parents—are the ones who want nothing to do with you.”

It didn’t hurt, not when she didn’t even remember them or the pain of losing her brother.

Sienna didn’t think like most people; that had become plainly obvious to her in the past year. Her closest ally for months had been Karen, who felt more now like an enemy. Those who’d kept themselves apart from her had become close. She hadn’t even seen Nina yet, and her friend was the most important person to her right now.

If Sienna had known something was happening, it was reasonable she’d have left clues. Probably for Nina to figure out. Sienna must have been worried she would get caught, and she might not have known she would get amnesia but she had apparently prepared for any eventuality. Now all she could do was thank the Lord that she had left herself a way to find the flash drive, even if it did feel like a wild-goose chase.

“It didn’t take that long to get here, and we haven’t lost much in trying.” Parker’s voice was soft, gentle. “It might even save Nina’s life. I’m not saying I’m right, but we have to approach this from every angle. Follow every lead.”

She didn’t argue; she just got out of the car. He shouldn’t feel guilty for telling her the truth she’d sought for so long.

Sienna slipped the ticket stub into her pocket and stood by the mile marker. A white post in the ground, it was maybe three feet high with an orange reflective pole that stuck up another four feet—for the snow season. It looked like every other marker on this highway and any other highway.

The ground around it was grass. She knelt and tried to remember if she’d been here before.

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