Another busy signal.
It would have been faster to jump into my truck and drive over there. Then a thought occurred to me. What if they had taken the phone off the hook while they were making up? I looked up Dennis’s cell phone number before realizing this would be the first time I’d ever had to use it. I called Zoë’s cell first, received an ‘out of area’ message and redialed Dennis’ cell number.
“Hey,” he answered.
Whatever happened to hello? “Dennis, may I speak to Zoë please?”
“Sorry, Doc, she’s not here.”
“What do you mean? She left Vancouver this afternoon. The flight is only an hour.”
“She couldn’t get a direct flight so she flew to Calgary.”
I hated it when Chris was right. “It still shouldn’t take her all day. Has she called?”
“Not since boarding the plane in Calgary.”
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