She contemplated picking up and decided to do so, they had no bad blood between them so why should ignore his call? Ignoring him would give him reason to think something was going on. They even had three kids between them so this could be about the children and she owed her children that many responsibilities. Now that they had met him they might want more, she did not have the right to deny them seeing that he seemed to have a good relationship with them.
"Hello Mr Meriwether?" she said answering the phone.
"Ell..." he trailed off remembering how she had been about them addressing each other. "Ms Everhart," he said correcting himself.
"Good day," she replied immediately. She did not want to leave room for awkward silence even though he was the one who started the call she was going
