Jeff Resnick 07.50 A Part of the Pattern by L. L. Bartlett

Author:L. L. Bartlett [Bartlett, L. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940801469
Publisher: Polaris Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

I didn’t call Richard about my big discovery. He’s already poo-poo’d my idea that Amy had survived and had been living under another identity—calling it pure conjecture, but I was as sure as I knew my own name that I was right. Who was Emily Farrell—the real Emily Farrell?

I wracked my brain to try to remember what Emily had told me about her family situation two years before. He parents had been ashamed when, as a college sophomore, she’d found herself pregnant. Her father had thrown her out of the house to fend for herself. The fact that she was staunchly pro-life told me she must have come from a deeply religious family.

And yet … if this family had stolen little Amy Stoddard and made her believe she was their own child, a punishable offense, shouldn’t they have done everything in their power to hold onto her? Of course, it had been a woman who’d hit the little girl with her car. A woman who had gotten out, picked up the girl, and stashed her in the back seat of her station wagon. What if the woman had wanted the child and the man hadn’t, or at least hadn’t bonded to the replacement child?

I could almost hear Richard again say, “Pure conjecture!”

Yes, but all the pieces fit. Or was I cramming them together until they fit my warped ideas?

I glanced at the clock. It was just past noon. My psychic mentor was never available to me until at least midnight. Worse yet, she’d been angry with me the last time we’d spoken. The idea of me charging clients by using my psychic gift had absolutely appalled her. She’d threatened to never be available for me ever again—and so far that threat was reality, since I’d been to the bakery where she held court at least a dozen times in the past few months and she’d never been there.

Sophie had always said, “I am here for you. I am only here for you.”

I hadn’t needed her since June, I’d only wanted to see her, talk with her. Would she be there if I showed up at the bakery at midnight?

I had twelve hours to ponder the question.

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