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Chapter Forty-four
I called Tracyas soon as I got back to my office, and told her what I’d discovered about Elyse.
“I don’t understand,” she said. “Why on earth would she give these people as references, knowing that’s how they felt?”
“Well, she clearly didn’t expect me to pay them a personal visit.”
“Didn’t you check them out before you hired her?”
“Iphonedthem. She obviously gave me fake numbers. God only knows who I spoke to.”
“She has an accomplice,” Tracy whispered dramatically.
Oh, God,I thought. Was it possible? What were we dealing with here?
“She actually walked away with fifty thousand dollars?”
“And now she’s hit the jackpot,” I conceded.
“So, what are we going to do?”
I felt almost pitifully grateful that Tracy had included herself in finding a solution to the problem I’d created. “I don’t know. Any suggestions?”
“Call Dad’s lawyer,” she said.
“Old Mr. Miller? He’s got to be Dad’s age. Is he still practicing?”
“I have no idea. Call him and find out.”
“And say…what?”
“Tell him what’s going on. Ask him what our options are. Legally speaking.”
“I’m not sure we have any.”
“Which is why you have to call him. You don’t want Elyse walking away with our inheritance!”
“It’s Dad we should be concerned about here,” I reminded her.
“I don’t think we have to worry about Dad. He’s having the time of his life.”
“At the moment, maybe. Who knows how long that’s going to last now that they’re married.”
“Oh, my God,” Tracy said.
“What?”
“You don’t think she’d do anything to speed things along, do you?”
“Like what?”
“Like poison his food or push him down the stairs or…Oh, my God!” she said again.
“What?”
“You don’t think she…?”
“What?”
