Nowhere to Run by Nancy Bush

Author:Nancy Bush
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2012-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

Auggie’s stomach muscles were tight. He’d put his phone in her hand and there was a chance, even though she wasn’t familiar with cells, that something could give away his deception. September could call back, for Chrissake. He was pushing it, but there it was.

“It’s just ringing,” she said after a tense moment. “If it goes to voice mail, I can’t tell her who I am. People are looking for me.”

“Then name someone else from that time you were there. Use another girl’s name. Say you’re her.”

“I—maybe Talia . . . O’Conner.”

Auggie nodded encouragingly. A moment later Liv stumbled through the voice mail giving Talia’s name while Auggie quietly whispered his cell number in her ear and she repeated the digits into the phone.

After she hung up she handed Auggie back the cell, which he tucked into a pocket. Then they just looked at each other.

“You’re good at this,” she observed.

“Eight percent of the time,” he answered. Then, “What about your birth certificate?”

“What about it?”

“Why was it in the package?”

Liv cocked her head and frowned. “I have no idea. It just listed my birth parents, but I always knew I was adopted.”

“Well, maybe your mother just wanted you to have it,” Auggie posed, “or maybe there’s something else there. Some other meaning. She had a purpose in keeping these things together, setting it up for you to receive them at twenty-five.”

“You’re thinking she was getting ready to take her own life,” Liv said tiredly, looking away.

“Nope. I’m going with your theory that something else happened. Maybe something that set up what happened at Zuma. Or, maybe something your mother knew or suspected that put her in danger. She sent this to you, just in case. Your brother didn’t get anything, did he?” he asked as an afterthought.

“Not that I know of.”

He shrugged. “You were the oldest.”

“I was adopted and Hague’s theirs.”

Auggie gave her a long look. “Now there’s a difference we haven’t explored. Your mother put your birth certificate in the package, and not your brother’s. So, who are your birth parents?”

“I don’t know them. My father never mentioned them, so I doubt he knows who they are,” Liv said.

“Let’s look at that birth certificate again.”

“It’s the hospital certificate,” Liv said, as she dug into her backpack, pulled out the package and slid the contents onto the table once again. “The one with the impressions of my feet. My parents’ names are written on it.”

“How did your adoptive mother get this?” Auggie wondered aloud, picking it up. “Father, Everett LeBlanc. Mother, Patricia LeBlanc.”

Liv took the paper from him. “Malone General Hospital. The closest one to Rock Springs.”

“So, maybe your mother knew the LeBlancs,” Auggie hazarded a guess. He pulled out his cell and tried the white pages for Rock Springs and some of the neighboring towns. “There’s an Everett LeBlanc in Malone,” he said.

Liv inhaled and exhaled, her eyes huge. “Okay.”

“Want to call?”

“Who should I say I am this time? If I tell them Olivia Dugan, they could know I’m their daughter.

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