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When I woke up the next morning and headed down for breakfast, I found Dad talking to Amelia and Asher at the table. He seemed upset about something, but when I walked in, he took a deep breath and calmed down.
“Hey, Dad,” I said. “What’s wrong?”
“It’s ridiculous,” he said. “Apparently a client called the office a few weeks ago to set up an appointment in Knoxville, and I wasn’t informed about it until this morning. It wasn’t even in my calendar.”
That seemed strange, as he’d always made it a rule to add every single thing he needed to do to his calendar every single day. The idea that he would forget to do that seemed odd to me.
“So what are you going to do now?” I asked.
“I’m heading down to Knoxville immediately,” he said. “It’s a really old client of the firm, so we can’t
