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location now and she didn’t own it then. She was volunteering there actually. She moved there a few years back. Not certain how long though.”
    “Did her family have anything to do with that?”
    “With what? Her owning the clinic or having to move?”
    “Both.”
    “Her last name has little to do with the decisions she makes I think. Well, sometimes I think it has a lot to do with them, but I don’t think she would answer that question the same way. As for the clinic moving? No. Nothing to do with that. Years ago she had an electrical fire and had to relocate after her insurance policy paid out.”
    Campbell raised an eyebrow.
    “Okay, Mr. Conspiracy Theory. It was faulty wiring found during the fire investigation. That has nothing to do with the—” She glanced down at Wyatt and squinched her lips together. “With the not-nice person after her now.”
    “Not nice. Good one,” Campbell teased.
    “Anyways,” she continued in an exasperated tone. “She’s always had to deal with some eccentric people. This is New York you know.”
    “Don’t I know it.” Campbell shook his head as she continued.
    “But she’s such a wonderful person. She helps everyone she can. All of them. Even the ones who don’t think they deserve it. And especially the ones with no other advocate to stand up with them and help them make some of the hardest decisions they’ll ever have to make.”
    “You make it sound like she shits rainbows.” Campbell just couldn’t reconcile the person Angela was waxing poetically about and the chick in his office who couldn’t keep her eyes from rolling at the drop of a hat at anything he said. “She’s not some sweet old lady who will watch your cat for you if you go away for a weekend or bring you soup if you’re sick.”
    “She’s better than all of that. Many a night she stayed up with me when I was so sick with morning sickness. You know that.”
    “Gah. She brought you those fucking pickles. Sorry. Sorry. Language. Got it.”
    “Yes she did. And ice cream and she even came to see me in the hospital when I had to have that first C-section so many years ago. Don’t know what I would have done without her. I still owe her more than I can tell with what she was going through at the time.”
    “What was happening at the time?”
    Something flitted across Angela’s face but she schooled her features quickly. “That was a really rough time with her family.”
    He wanted to press but decided to approach from a different angle. “The Grants are in the news a lot. Do you know the nature of any of the emails she’s been receiving? Anything? I know she doesn’t advertise the fact she’s a Grant.”
    “Quite the opposite,” Clay added.
    “But is the family the target because they put two and two together and came up with some payoff scheme?”
    “She’s always been incredibly aware of the impact she can have on her family’s name, and she’s honestly been very guarded with anything that she shares about her past.” There was that same something twisting Angela’s features. “I’ve always respected it. Always. Never questioned it.” Her voice trailed off and she rubbed their baby’s back.
    “But?” Campbell prompted.
    Looking up, she glanced over at Clay before continuing. “I can’t help but feel incredibly guilty.”
    “What in the fu—world do you have to be guilty about? You didn’t even know she was really in trouble until today.”
    “But I should have known.”
    “How do you figure that?” Clay asked as he stared down at her.
    “I’m her best friend. I knew something was going on. Assumed it was about the clinic, which is always having issues with funding. Always. But that assumption could have cost her her life.”
    “You’re no more responsible for her crazy person as she could have been responsible for yours.”
    “But it sounds like she was having trouble during the same time I was. When I was at the final show and you were both with me, she missed