Blue Bayou by JoAnn Ross

Author:JoAnn Ross [Ross, JoAnn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780743436823
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2002-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

“If that's any example of your descriptive powers, I find it hard to believe you're a writer.”

“It's hard for me, too, most times. And it was a long and crooked path gettin' where I am.”

Jack frowned as he thought about the argument he'd had with his larger-than-life father back in the seventh grade when he'd announced his decision to become a writer instead of a cop. Three days later Jake Callahan had been killed. Jack often wondered if his daddy could see the success he'd achieved.

And, more important, if he was proud of him.

“But we're not talkin' about me.”

He shook off the sudden and unsettling realization that there was a chance he and Danielle had something more in common than just lust. If he were writing them as two characters in one of his novels, he'd have them both sharing a subconscious need for paternal approval from fathers who couldn't—for different reasons—ever give it to them.

“We're talking about you and your daughter. About you settin' things right before you kick the bucket.

About acting like a father for once in your life.”

“Don't you tell me I wasn't a good father. The girl never wanted for anything.”

“Except love. Hell, the only reason she chased after me that summer was because she was so damn emotionally needy she was willin' to convince herself that she was in love. That's the only way a good girl like her could allow herself to get any comfort from havin' sex.”

“I don't want to talk about you having sex with my daughter.”

“That makes two of us. But you know, it seems real funny to me that you'd go to prison, even though we both know you were framed—”

“You didn't tell Danielle that?”

“No.” But he'd sure as hell had wanted to.

“Good. I don't want her anywhere near that crime family.”

Jack hadn't been real sure about that the first time the judge had insisted he keep quiet about what he'd learned about the Maggione family wanting to get the incorruptible law-and-order judge off the bench prior to the trial of one of Papa Joe Maggione's grandsons. Having spent time with Danielle and witnessed the woman she'd become, he suspected she might actually start rocking some potentially dangerous boats.

“I'm still havin' trouble figuring out why you'd be willing to spend seven years in prison, perhaps even ruin your health, to protect your daughter from getting mixed up with mobsters.”

“It wasn't just that. There was her husband's career to think of.”

“There is no way in hell I'm gonna believe that you'd let yourself get convicted just to further some politician's career. Especially if you were betting on him getting elected president some day and giving you an executive pardon. Hell, you'd get better odds with Armand Trusseau.”

Trusseau was bookmaker of choice for southern Louisiana gamblers, taking bets on everything from horse races to pro and college sports to whatever the market wanted. Jack had even heard stories about him making book on the cake-baking contest at the parish fair, and which

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