Guardian Angel by Adam Carpenter

Author:Adam Carpenter [Carpenter, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay mystery
Publisher: MLR Press
Published: 2016-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Even with his preoccupation with family matters during the last several days, Jimmy remained as up-to-date as he could be regarding Serena Carson. Still it took a call from the accused herself to get Jimmy totally refocused, coming in soon after he’d left Madame Mo’s storefront.

“Where are you, Jimmy?”

He looked up at a green street sign. “9th and 47th. Headed home.”

“No, you’re not. You’re coming to my home pronto.”

It was probably good she carried such insistence in her voice. He needed the distraction. The meeting with Maureen Dean had left him unsettled.

“See you soon,” was his reply.

He bypassed a kiosk that sold papers, soda, candy, and lottery cards. The headlines stared back at him from the Post and Daily News: HEIRESS BACK AT SCENE OF CRIME and HOME WHERE THE KNIFE IS, they said respectively. Jimmy shook his head.

The newspapers had of course enjoyed brisk sales with the notoriety of Serena’s arrest the prior week for the two brutal murders that had occurred at her tony brownstone. She’d been on the front pages for days, the poor little rich girl more than grown up, having lived her entire life in the specter and shadow of her parents’ death in that fiery plane crash, a story they rehashed over the weekend in a double-page feature. Jimmy remembered looking at an ash-covered little girl, the lone survivor. Still there were even editorials written about her privileged life, one going so far as to say that since she had no real role models to guide her upbringing, she possessed no sense of the value of life.

The reporter claimed she had shown no remorse during her arraignment over the way she allegedly had brutally murdered Henderson Carlyle and Robbie Danvers, men she had had sex with and disposed of when she was tired of them. Forget that she was the victim of domestic abuse, a subject still buried. Her lawyer had not introduced it, probably as a safeguard for their defense and just allowed her to enter a plea of not guilty. The headlines were sensationalism at its best—or its worse. It all depended on which side of the human condition you came down on.

Jimmy thought it was all bullshit. He didn’t believe for a second Serena was guilty, yet it didn’t mean she was completely innocent either. Jimmy usually dealt between the lines. He found the gray in life.

The courts were currently of a similarly mixed opinion, and because of that Serena had been granted bail and was currently under house arrest. It was a concession made by the prosecution, given her stature in the community and her unblemished record. Jimmy had been meaning to get in touch with her anyway, and after his meeting with Maureen Dean, he was thinking it might be time to devote some attention to his other case. She beat him to the punch. Dealing with the fallout of Mickey Dean and his possible involvement with what had happened to Kellan would have to wait until the nighttime, for an hour when Mickey would crawl out from the shadows and into his own darkness.

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