CHAPTER 7
NOW WHAT? ALL week, the clock had been counting down to this moment. Tomorrow, Rhys was due to drive back home, and Coco? She still had nowhere to go.
The handful of calls they’d received had yielded a big fat zero—several people wanted to know if there was a reward, one guy said she reminded him of a girl he’d seen at his cousin’s wedding, and a woman threatened to report them for littering after they stuck a poster to her fence. The wedding lead had sounded promising until they tracked down the cousin. The mystery girl turned out to be his sister-in-law, and the guy who called must have been wearing beer goggles because she looked nothing like Coco.
“Did you water the orchids?” Coco asked.
“Not yet.”
“I’ll do them.”
She hadn’t smiled once today, which was a crying shame b
