California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker

Author:T. Jefferson Parker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Police, Mystery & Detective, Southern, Crimes Against, Fiction, California, Suspense, Historical, Young Women, General
ISBN: 9780061874895
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2004-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

"I wouldn't, either."

"Bet you two had a laugh over it, though. Didn't you?"

Andy nodded again. "But I'm not writing a Journal editorial humiliating my brother."

Jonas's smiling gaze went right through him. "I thought about Nick. I made some inquiries. Made some more. Got what I needed. It wasn't hard."

Andy saw it coming. Tried to look anticipatory and clueless.

"A lonely district attorney receptionist. A widow. Pretty eyes."

"You lost me."

"This will bring you back. Sharon Santos. You carried little friendly greetings back and forth between them in the beginning, remember? He's giving her more than greetings now. I've got witnesses at her apartment complex. I've got a statement she signed for my promise to keep it out of my paper."

"Which you'll happily break."

"I don't have to break it. I've got a better audience than the public."

Then the sudden awareness of disaster, the first stomach-dropping loss of altitude. "You'll just dump it all on Katy Becker."

"Now you understand why you have to write the op-ed piece."

Andy stood and Dessinger flinched. Then stood, too. He pulled his cuffs right.

"What do you want?" asked Andy. "You want him off the case? Fired?"

Dessinger looked at Andy in what appeared to be genuine astonishment. "I want him ruined."

"You're not ruined. No one even knows. Nick did something stupid and felt bad. Forget about it."

"I can't."

Dessinger backed away from Andy, toward the door. "You probably haven't noticed this because you're sleeping with my hot little cousin, but there hasn't been a Dessinger born on earth who possesses one grain of forgiveness in his heart. Or hers."

"Be the first," said Andy. "Start a fad."

"Have some fun with that editorial."

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