“What happens if I’m being sued and I don’t go?” she asked.
Jack and Lilith started typing on their phones.
“This information only applies to not showing up to court,” Jack told her.
“Right,” Lilith agreed. “What you have is just a letterrequestingyour presence. That doesn’t mean you’re being sued.”
“What else can it mean?” Kes asked them and rose from the sofa. “I’m not going. I’ll call tomorrow and find out what they want before I see them.”
“If you go today, I can go with,” Jack told her.
Jack was such a dear friend. Kes could always count on him. Kim and Lilith said it was because he was interested in her. Poor Jack. She wasn’t attracted to him in the least. She tried to be. But she didn’t want to risk their friendship.
She went to the far left corner of the loft where her bed was and fell into it.
Her phone rang. She reached into the pocket of her robe for it. She didn’t recognize the number. “Hello?” Why did she pick it up? She wasn’t even thinking about picking it up.
“Ms. Lancaster?”
She sat up. British accent. She had relatives in England, but she didn’t recognize this man’s voice. Her stomach tightened into a knot. “Yes.”
“Mr. Green here from ISOAP.”
“How did you get my number?”
“I understand my correspondence was vague. Set your mind at rest.”Rest.“This meeting is in regard to an inheritance. That is all I can say over the wire. Can I expect you?”
An inheritance? What? “An inheritance from whom?”
“As I have already stated, Ms. Lancaster. I am not liberty to say on the phone. Bring a friend if you are wary.”
“I…”
“Can I expect you?”
She sighed. “Sure. I’ll be there in an hour—with a friend. Or two.”
She hung up then called her dad.
“Hi, Dad.”
“Hey, Kiddo, what’s up?” came his dear, familiar voice.
She told him about the letter that had just arrived. She didn’t tell him about Mr. Green calling her. She didn’t want to worry him. Should she be worried? “Do you know anything about me getting an inheritance?”
He didn’t know. He took down the name of the company and promised to see what he could find out.
She also didn’t tell him she was going there and on Sunday. He would have a fit. But she felt in her bones that she should go.
“We still meeting at Martino’s at seven for dinner?”
“Of course, Daddy. I wouldn’t miss it.”
Great. See you tonight, Kes. Love you.”
“Love you, too,” she told him and hung up.
She bit her lower lip and called out to Jack and the others that she was going and asked them if they would come with her.