Glass House by Patrick Reinken

Author:Patrick Reinken
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fbi, thriller, murder, action, sex, legal, trial, lawsuit, heroine, africa, diamond, lawyer, kansas, judgment day, harassment, female hero, lawrence, bureau, woman hero
Publisher: Patrick Reinken

Chapter 28

A Little Independent Investigation

A day and a half after their meeting at the law school, Megan and Finn were in Megan’s Chrysler, driving toward the house where Lora Alexander’s mother lived. It was the first time Megan had hit the road like this, outside the city and on a highway, in months. Since she’d come back from her lost year, in fact.

But the car rode as smoothly as ever. Its great, swooping high-finned length glided along and handled the bumps and sways with a gentle lift that didn’t exist in anything newer. Megan rolled the window down a half inch and listened to the crisp air whistle a constant, droning pitch.

She felt like she’d never left off driving in many ways. She only took a brief layover, one a little longer than most. Parked the car for a piece, worked a stretch more than usual. Then got going again. She’d pointed the front bumper somewhere and found herself looking forward to what that somewhere turned out to be.

The only difference was that Finn Garber sat in the passenger seat, where no one at all had sat during the year she was gone. Megan’s elbow was propped on the window frame, hand at her head and the other one holding the chrome-lined steering wheel, just as it had too many times to count. But Finn was beside her, silent and mostly unnoticed, and each time she glanced his way, she was reminded that this time she had a particular place ahead of her. She wasn’t simply driving, and she wouldn’t be stopping when she got tired of doing that or ran low on gas or saw a motel she thought she might like.

His presence actually surprised her at one of those glances. An hour out of town, with the nose of the car aiming west and somewhat south into Kansas farm country, Megan was intent on the road as her mind drifted through thoughts she couldn’t quite catch and hold, and she took a look to her right, jolted by the sight of the man sitting there beside her.

For a second she thought he was Ben. That’s when Megan really noticed the depth of Finn’s silence. He hadn’t offered meaningful words of any kind, even in response to things she thought might prompt him. Mention where they were going, and he looked at her and nodded an acknowledging but wordless okay. Tell him they’d go to Claire Alexander’s, then work back by Chilcott’s, and Garber managed only a soft, That’s fine.

So Megan started talking without expecting him to answer her. She went back to the beginning and reported on Jeremy Waldoch and the case he brought to her before, the first case, running out everything Lora Alexander had alleged and the things Waldoch said about it.

When she hit the point of the verdict and Waldoch’s victory, Megan cruised right through. She didn’t stop to find out if Finn was getting it. She didn’t even stop to find out if he was listening.

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