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constantly have spread out on the kitchen table. It showed her turned to the camera with a half startled look on her face.
    “I held this up and then froze the screen on purpose right before the chat started. It looked really authentic, like you were having computer troubles for the whole interview. But the sound worked fine and I’ve always been able to fake your voice.”
    “Oh my gosh,” Piper laughed and stuffed the awful picture back under Evie’s papers. “I forgot how good you are at voices. Remember how you broke up with all my boyfriends over the phone for me because I was always too much of a wimp?”
    “Yes, of course. I still feel a little guilty about that.” Evie stopped laughing and reached across the table to take Piper’s hand. “I’m so glad you’re home.”
    Evie went on to tell of how she was finally able to get her master’s degree and how glad she was that her almost four year long nightmare had ended. Even though she didn’t have a clue what she was going to do with it, she was happy she had persevered and gotten the degree.
    “You have too many irons in the fire with this estate,” Evie said after she showed Piper the accounts from while she was gone. “If it hadn’t been for Herb, I would have gone crazy trying to keep everything straight. He was really a rock this whole time.”
    Piper didn’t like the overly fond way Evie spoke of her lawyer. Yes, he was a very nice guy and amazingly brilliant at his job, but she didn’t need to get all glazed eyed because of it. She was about to bring up the sticky subject of what had happened with Sam, when Mellie came in from the main house door looking harried.
    “Sam’s just behind me,” she said, shaking her head and shooting an accusing look at Evie.
    “Oh my God, Sam.” Evie made a face. “I completely forgot to tell him you were back! I was such a mess last night and then …”
    Mellie made a judgemental grunting noise just as Sam came crashing through the door.
    “Oh, Jesus, she wasn’t joking.” He dropped the blue and yellow circus elephant print bag he was holding and crushed Piper to his chest in a suffocating hug.
    “Why would I joke about something like that?” Mellie huffed.
    “I can’t breathe,” Piper said into his sweater, squeezing him back with all her might.
    He let go and leaned back to look at her, his green eyes shiny with unshed tears and a huge grin taking over his handsome face. He shook his unruly brown curls out of his eyes and laughed.
    “Where’s Lachlan?” he asked worriedly, looking around the room as if he could have missed the massive Highlander.
    Piper told him he was just out looking over the estate and tried to get him to sit down, but it seemed he’d only come to take Magnus to a doctor’s appointment.
    “I’m sorry I didn’t call you last night and tell you,” Evie started as he picked up the diaper bag.
    She took it from him and started loading it with things. It caused a pain in Piper’s chest to watch the special stuffed animal, binky and fluffy blanket all go into the bag. Things that Magnus needed that had to be transported back and forth.
    Her own parents had divorced her first year of high school and she wondered if this would be easier for Magnus, to not ever know his parents being together. She almost threw up her breakfast it hurt so badly to think of it, and if she had any say at all, she was going to get those two back together.
    She looked over at Mellie, wondering if she knew anything, but Mellie was apparently used to the baby exchange and wasn’t paying them any attention.
    Sam merely nodded at Evie’s weak excuse and Piper rushed to try to defuse any suspicion he might have had that she would have been purposely ignoring him. God, she hoped Evie hadn’t been purposely ignoring him.
    “We got back pretty late, and it was just a mess,” she said, realizing exactly how lame her explanation sounded. “Sorry,” she finished.
    He smiled at her and she could see