“I thought you said Lexi was with this Emilie and her friends on Friday night,” Price said to MacFarlane when they had left the interview with Emilie Oleson and her attorney.
“I thought she was,” Rhys said in a small voice. He shook his head miserably. “There was that concert in the park Friday, and I asked her if she’d like to go, and she told me she had to go over town for this dinner with a college friend who was also a client.”
“Things come up,” Price said. “Don’t worry about it, buddy.”
They returned to talk of the interview. They’d been surprised when the attorney had confirmed that Emilie was adamant that she did not want the inheritance. After Emilie’s vehement outburst about the estate, Shellgrove had quietly explained that he would be helping her to hire a financial advisor wh
