Game of Chance: Con Law Trilogy - Book 1 (Grifter Trilogy) by Kobrinica Press

Author:Kobrinica Press [Press, Kobrinica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kobrinica Press
Published: 2024-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

The clerk’s office occupied a large stretch of real estate on the first floor of the trial court. For ease of management, the clerk’s office was divided into sections with two service windows for civil matters, two windows for family law matters, one window for probate matters, and the remaining five windows devoted specifically for traffic and criminal matters. Each window was manned by a deputy clerk behind a sheet of glass three feet wide with a gap at the bottom with a metal insert about chest height for transmitting money and documents. Of the five windows assigned to traffic and criminal matters, four were dedicated to the general public to pay traffic tickets, make payments on fines and restitution, or schedule court appearances by placing a case on the court’s calendar. The fifth window at the end of the long counter was the “Attorneys Only” window reserved exclusively for attorneys to pick up discovery, file motions, or for the District Attorney’s Office to process criminal filings.

Chance and Jared were loitering in the criminal section of the clerk’s office waiting for a woman carrying a manila file folder to arrive. As they waited, Jared turned to Chance and asked, “How do you come up with this stuff?”

“I have no idea,” Chance replied. “These guys are organized crime, and you’re right, they don’t scare or intimidate easy. This is the only idea that I could come up with that might get these guys off my back.”

“How do you know it’ll work?” Jared asked.

“Well, I don’t know for sure,” Chance said. “It’s not like I do this every day. But I don’t see a flaw in my idea, so in theory, it should work.”

“So you don’t know that it won’t work, so therefore it might work, is that the assumption we’re going with?” Jared asked.

“Don’t forget,” Chance said looking over at Jared, “remember to smile so she’s distracted by that boyish charm that Bailey finds so irresistible. And why’s your hair so big? When’s the last time you got a haircut?”

“Like this,” Jared said, smiling, trying his best to look endearing.

“No, that’s creepy. I can see practically all the teeth in your mouth. Smile normally. Don’t look so deranged.”

“That was normal. And what do you mean ‘Don’t look so deranged’? Since when do I look ‘so deranged,’ and how the hell am I supposed to control the degree of derangement?”

“You look fine. Just act normal, or what’s normal for you,” Chance said.

“As the deranged hanger-boy with the big hair, my ego is really taking a beating around you lately.”

“Stay focused,” Chance said.

They continued to linger in the hallway of the clerk’s office until Chance whispered to Jared, “There she is,” referring to a short woman with dark, shoulder length wavy hair walking toward them. There was nothing extraordinary that stood out about the thirty-two-year-old woman wearing black pants and a short sleeve polyester blouse with a pink and black geometric pattern, except that she was carrying a manila file folder with a lot of documents stuffed inside.

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