The Moonlighters Collection by Terri Blackstock

Author:Terri Blackstock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 35

Amber tried not to panic. Where was her phone? She had just realized that it hadn’t rung in a long time, and when she reached for it, it was gone. She racked her brain, trying to think back.

Had she left it at the first bank? The second?

Robbie wouldn’t stop crying, and she looked back, found the pacifier, and stuck it into his mouth. He spat it out and kept screaming. “Hold on!” she said. “Just wait! Mommy will feed you when we get home. I have to think!”

But her voice and tone only made Robbie cry harder. She turned the air conditioner on high, hoping the cool air would calm him down. Could she have dropped her phone? What if someone had picked it up at the bank? She was supposed to hear from the transporters. If they couldn’t reach her, they might get spooked and not make the delivery. Her heart pounded. What was she going to do?

She pulled over into a parking lot, unfastened her seat belt, and looked on her floorboard and under her feet. Nothing. She searched between the two front seats, then went around the car and looked on the floorboard of the passenger seat. No, she hadn’t dropped it.

Why hadn’t she locked her car?

Robbie kept screaming. She got into the backseat and dug through the diaper bag for a bottle. She found a half bottle of formula from earlier that morning. Hoping it hadn’t soured, she stuck it in his mouth. He hushed and took the bottle in his own hands, sucking desperately.

Think! Trembling, she got back into the driver’s seat, trying to decide what to do. She’d just have to retrace her steps. When was the last time she’d seen it? She tried to remember. Lenny had called before she went into the first bank, and he’d told her he was going to call back. What was he thinking now?

They had never fully accepted her. But hadn’t she proven herself, setting up Bob’s murder? She had told them where he would be and when. Still, if anything went wrong, they would question her loyalty, or her competence. It was a terrible day to lose her phone.

As she drove back to the first bank, she turned the air conditioner vents on herself. She was sweating.

Had she taken the phone in with her? Why was this such a hard thing to remember? She was always misplacing her keys too. She just had too much on her mind. Bob always chided her for that, and for not locking her car door when there were valuables inside.

He’d noticed that one time when the baby was in the car. “Anyone could kidnap him,” he’d told her. “When our kids were babies, Juliet would never have left them alone in a car.”

That had enraged her. “I don’t care what Juliet would do, so stop throwing her up to me.”

“You’ve got to do better than this, Amber. You’re a mother now.”

Grudgingly, she had promised him that she wouldn’t leave Robbie in the car anymore without at least the air conditioner running, and she would lock the car.

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