Caller Unknown

Caller Unknown

Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m
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A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on ...

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CHAPTER 7

The Dishes business account springs to life on the laptop on the kitchen table and Simone finds herself looking into it. Just to see what they’ve got. Nothing more than that. She isn’t necessarily going to go to meet these people. She just needs to know if she can.

The wooden table is rickety and the laptop moves around as she navigates the bank account. All around her is a silence so deep it throbs her ears. She has less than twelve hours in which to be prepared to do a deal. And isn’t she preparing? Isn’t that all this is?

That the money belongs to her anyway crosses her mind, which is an unfair thought to have, but one she feels regardless. The restaurant is almost as much a part of her as Lucy is. Damien might do the books and the HR, but Simone does the cooking, and what else matters without that?

Damien will see any withdrawals, but Simone’s nerves are on a high boiling panic, and she no longer cares. Or, rather, can’t even bring herself to consider it. A disagreement with five thousand miles between them is less urgent than her other, immediate, problems.