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Valerie
Lipson.”
    “ Jillian Roper,” Jill said. “What
do you want?”
    “ I have a couple things for you.”
The man gave her a stack of papers then pulled out another set of
papers. “Is Heather or Blane Lipson here?”
    Jill turned away from the door to look at her
papers. Hearing her name, Heather came to the door.
    “ Did you need something?” Heather
asked.
    “ I have this for you,” the little
man tried to hand her papers.
    “ What is it?”
    “ You’re being sued,” the little
man said.
    “ What?” Heather tried to shut the
door on the man.
    He stuck his foot in the door. “I’m just the
server. Just doing my job.”
    Mike came up behind Heather.
    “ What is it?”
    “ Some guy who says I’m being
sued.”
    Mike yanked the door open.
    “ Jacob Lipson?”
    “ He’s here,” Mike said. “Why don’t
you give me everything you have?”
    “ I don’t get paid if they don’t
get them.”
    The man tossed a stack of papers toward
Heather. Out of instinct, Heather caught them. She was about to
toss them back when Blane took them from her.
    “ What’s going on?” Jacob asked
Jill. She was standing in the doorway to the living room staring at
the papers.
    “ Lawsuits,” Mike said. “There’s
one for you.”
    Jacob held his hand out. The man set a stack
of papers in his hand. Jacob put his arm around Jill and led her
from the doorway. Delphie, Sam and Aden came to the door to see
what was going on.
    Mike tried to close the door but the server
put his foot in the door again.
    “ What?”
    “ There’s a couple more,” the thin
man said. “One for Valerie Lipson.”
    “ I’ll take it,” Mike said. “I’m
her husband. I handle this stuff. Anyone else?”
    “ Aden Norsen.”
    Aden reached past Mike to take his set of
papers.
    “ Honey Lipson-Scully.”
    MJ stalked to the door. MJ’s towering stature
and dark look made the server gulp.
    “ You’re not Honey,” the server
sputtered.
    “ Prove it,” MJ said. “Give me the
papers.”
    “ Subpoena. It’s just a
sub…subpoena.”
    With a parting growl, MJ snatched Honey’s
subpoena and marched away.
    “ Anything else?” Mike
asked.
    “ Yeah, there’s one here for
Chastity Grace Bell,” the man said.
    “ There’s no one by that name
here,” Mike said. “You’re out of luck.”
    Mike tried to close the door only to hit the
server’s foot again.
    “ Move your foot,” Mike
said.
    “ There’s another name
here.”
    “ What?” Mike asked.
    “ Chastity Grace Bell.”
    “ I told you there’s no one here by
that name.”
    “ It says a.k.a. Oracle
Taber.”
    “ Nope, you’re shit out of luck.”
Mike tried to close the door again.
    “ There’s another name!” The server
shouted.
    Mike’s very being radiated his irritation. He
motioned with his hand for the man to say the other
name.
    “ Del-Fi.”
    Delphie put a hand on Mike’s arm. She smiled
at the thin man and took the papers from him. She winked at Mike’s
stunned face. The process server bowed and Delphie shut the door in
his face.

CHAPTER
FIFTY-NINE
    The Oracle Taber
     
    The day before
Thanksgiving
     
    How could it happen? How could the horrible
past reach up and snatch her from the perfect present? She couldn’t
make sense of it.
    Lying on her bed, Delphie mentally tracked the
series of events.
    She’d worried about her chocolate chip
cheesecake. Valerie loved Delphie’s cheesecake. Valerie could, and
would, eat an entire chocolate chip cheesecake herself. But Valerie
was ‘slimming down’ and muscling up for her movie role. Standing in
the kitchen, Delphie was worrying about Valerie when she heard
Heather’s indignant:
    “ Some guy who says I’m being
sued.”
    She remembered walking out to the door. Sam
slipped his arm around her shoulder as they watched the kids. She
glanced from person to person. With practiced ease, she read their
mental states.
    Jill was being sued by Trevor’s parents. They
wanted custody of Katy. Jill wasn’t sure what