Intervention (Intervention Series Book 1) by Blackstock Terri

Author:Blackstock, Terri [Blackstock, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

thirty

While Lance worked on getting the addresses for Emily’s Atlanta MySpace friends, Barbara listened to the voicemails on Lance’s phone. There were dozens from news sources all over the country. Several from friends back home, leaving their messages of encouragement and hope and their promises to pray.

As she listened, her own phone rang. Her heart jolted. Emily? She grabbed it off the bed table and looked at the caller ID. It was her assistant, Fran.

Her spirits flattened. Fran had left several other messages, and since she was holding down the fort at Barbara’s design studio, Barbara supposed she needed to answer. She clicked the phone on. “Hi, Fran.”

“Barbara! I can’t believe I finally got you. I’ve called a million times!”

“I’ve been a little busy.”

“Have they found Emily?”

“No, she’s still lost.”

There was a heavy sigh and a long pause. “Barbara, you need to come home. She’s jerking your life around again. Can’t you see that?”

Fran had never had a child on drugs. Her understanding of the trials of a family racked with addiction was limited to what she’d seen on talk shows. But she had lots of opinions about the subject.

“Fran, I’m not coming home without Emily.”

“So if you find her, you’re not even gonna put her into treatment?”

“I don’t know. One thing at a time.”

Fran cleared her throat. “Barbara, I really hate to be the skeptic here, but you’ve got to face the fact that Emily probably killed that woman.”

Barbara wished she’d ignored the call.

“Emily’s a criminal, and until she sits in prison for a few years, she’s not gonna turn around.”

The muscles in Barbara’s face went rigid, locking around her mouth, her lips.

“Even then she may not,” Fran went on, “but it won’t be your fault, Barbara. You’ve done everything you can.”

“I have to go,” Barbara managed to say.

“No, wait!”

Barbara hesitated, swallowing hard.

“I didn’t call about this. I really didn’t. I’m sorry I got off on it. I’m just trying to help.”

“I don’t want to talk about it anymore.”

“Okay, fine. The real reason I called is to tell you that the governor’s office has moved the presentation up two days. Instead of Friday, it’s going to be Wednesday.”

“No!” Barbara yelled. “We’re not ready!”

“I tried to tell them.”

“Do they know about Emily?”

“Sweetie, everybody knows about Emily.”

She sighed. “I can’t meet that deadline. Unless I find Emily in the next hour and work around the clock until then, it can’t happen.”

“Tell me what I can do to help,” Fran said. “I don’t exactly have your eyes, but I’m creative. Is there a list somewhere of furniture I can photograph for the board? Do you have the swatches you’re planning to use for the other rooms? And where is the board for the master bedroom?”

“It’s at my house. You can go over there and get it. There’s a key in my top desk drawer. But it’s not finished. We’re talking eighteen rooms. I can’t do them all on the boards. I have to be there.”

“All the more reason to come home. You deserve this, Barbara.

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