Chapter Twenty-One
My Nemesis
So—do you think this kid is yours or not?”
The familiar female voice on the phone was neither accusatory nor sympathetic. It was Valerie and totally in character. Matter of fact. Just give me the facts.
She hadn’t said hello. It was the first thing she said. The caller ID on my new cell showed BLOCKED, and of course I wondered how she’d heard the news, as well as how she’d gotten my new number, which so far I’d only shared with Felicia and her doctor and also with good-neighbor Todd, since friends were in short supply and whose perpetual help I might need to call upon at any time, given that I’d moved back home and promptly into a state of perpetual anxiety.
I’d needed the new phone because Dave Crewcut at Edwards had relieved me of my government-issued s
