[09] Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels [Michaels, Fern]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense, Vigilantes, Women judges, Virginia, Fiction, Romance, Suspense fiction, Female friendship, Legal stories, Women judges - United States
ISBN: 9781420101850
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2008-03-11T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Nellie Easter, flashlight in hand pointed at the floor and led her guest down a dark hallway to a bathroom bigger than most people’s living rooms. She’d led Justice Barnes to this spot because this particular bathroom had no windows, but it did have exquisite lighting. She closed the door and then turned on the light.

“You’re getting pretty good at this cloak and dagger stuff, Nellie,” Pearl said in a jittery-sounding voice.

“Do you mean good the way you suddenly got good with your disappearing act? What the hell is going on, Pearl? And the reason for this cloak and dagger stuff, as you call it, is because there is probably someone outside watching the house. Someone who knows you’re here. That means they’re spying on me, you and the others. They also probably saw you riding my horse over here to Myra’s house. I’m sorry you had to be alone here so long but there was nothing else I could do. I want to tell you right now, I do not like going through those tunnels. They spook me big-time. Enough said. Why are you here? Grant came looking for you tonight. He drove all the way out here to see if I knew where you were. Jack Emery opened the door to him. I had to think fast on my feet and I am the first to admit, I am not good at that. I like to ponder problems. I said we were playing poker. I have no idea if he believed me or not.”

Pearl Barnes looked around the brightly lit bathroom. “This is very pretty. Myra always did have good taste. I really don’t know where to start, Nellie.”

“You’ve put me, the others and yourself in jeopardy by coming out here not once but twice. I will tell you this, I did not like the look on Grant’s face tonight. I’m going to tell you something else and I don’t care if it hurts your feelings or not. I don’t like him, Pearl. I realized that tonight when I was talking to him. On top of that, he’s a liar. He said he did not go to the FBI and he did. I’m really tired, Pearl, and I’d like to go to bed, so talk fast.”

Pearl sat down on the edge of the bathtub. She clasped her hands in her lap as she looked around and then back at Nellie. “It all went wrong, Nellie. I think…I’m almost positive that Grant…that Grant and my ex–son-in-law are coconspirators. At first I didn’t want to believe it, then I started watching and listening. All right, I spied on Grant. When I started the underground he was right there beside me. He broke the law right along with me. He never asked for anything. We both thought we were helping all those women and children get a better life. He never complained, did his share of the dirty work. We’ve been together almost twenty years, Nellie.

“A little over a year ago he started to change.

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