“Your mother is looking for you,” Tiffany’s lawyer said on the satellite phone.
“Tell her no!” She felt sick to her stomach and was glad that Devin wasn’t here to see how weak she really was.
“I already did.” But there was something in Joel Masterson’s voice that told her there was more.
“Why is she looking for me?”
“You recall that she does this every few years.”
“Yes,” Tiffany did, now that she was getting through the initial panic. “Is there something different about this time?”
“I don’t think so…” again that hesitation. Joel was a cutthroat legal shark, one of the reasons she had hired him. It wasn’t like him to avoid an issue.
“Joel?”
He sighed. “Ms. Mills. You and I go back well over a decade.”
Joel had made his reputation in putting her prominent stepfather behind bars for
