Page 116 of A Lesson for Laurel

Having summer help from college students helped a ton too.

Lily got up and went to talk to other people and Laurel returned to work.

An hour later she was walking around the floor when her name came over the speaker to report to the front.

“Yes, Cassie,” she said when she got to the main entrance. There was an employee that worked there letting people in for deliveries and dealing with some administrative work with supplies and deliveries.

“Sorry to bother you,” Cassie said. “There is a woman that came in asking for you. She said she didn’t have an appointment but wanted to know if you were available.”

“Did she give her name?” she asked. She’d come in from the back and couldn’t see the person sitting in the small waiting room.

“Kristine Dobson,” Cassie said.

“I don’t know the name. I’ll go out and see what it’s about. Thanks.” She went through the door. “Hi, I’m Laurel. How can I help you?”

“Laurel Glasgow?” Kristine said.

“Yes,” she said.

“You’ve been served,” Kristine said and handed over an envelope.

Laurel stood there staring at the large envelope in her hand just dumbfounded. She couldn’t for the life of her imagine what this could be about.

“Everything okay?” Cassie asked. She knew Cassie couldn’t hear what had been said. At least she didn’t think so.

“Yes,” she said. “Thanks.”

She went back to her office and sat down, opened the envelope and couldn’t believe what she was reading.

“You look a little white,” Lily said, standing at the door to her office.

She lifted her eyes at her boss, not realizing she was still in the building. “I’m being sued.”

“Can I ask for what?” Lily asked.

She burst out laughing. This was just too much. “My ex’s parents are suing me for the cancellation of my wedding. They want me to reimburse them the fifty thousand dollars that they lost.”

The wedding would have cost more than that, but maybe that was the only amount they lost. She didn’t know. She didn’t care.

This was ridiculous.

“I’ve never heard of such a thing,” Lily said.

“Me neither,” she said. “I don’t even know what to say to this.”

“First thing is you need an attorney,” Lily said.

“I’ll call Easton in a minute,” she said. She looked up and saw Denise standing in the doorway. “Yes?”

“Sorry to bother you,” Denise said. “But one of the machines is beeping and Aster isn’t in the building right now.”

“I’ll check it out,” she said, standing up.

Lily followed her out, and when Laurel got to the machine, she noticed it was just a silly thing that happened all the time and could easily be reset. Something Denise could have done.

When she went to talk to Denise about it, who had her back to her, she heard Denise talking about her being sued.

She ground her teeth. She’d bet anything that Denise was listening at the door and then when she was caught madeup some excuse. The beeping meant nothing and wasn’t even affecting production.

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