FIVE
“Hey, Oliver, got a minute?”
Oliver winced when he recognized the voice. He squelched the embittered reaction to the intervention from a few days earlier.
“Oliver?” repeated the caller.
“Yes, Richard,” he replied indifferently.
“Where are you?”
“Watching the sun rise on the banks of the Columbia,” responded Oliver.
“I have a sensitive project for you,” said Richard. “Client is willing to pay any fee you suggest due to the immediacy of the process service.”
Oliver considered the request with immediate interest. He decided to put his anger to the side, and welcome the voice on the other end of the flip phone, because it meant some quick and easy money. He sat in his car on the riverbank watching the sun rise over the wooded hillside across the wide Columbia. He began replaci
