JAG Lawyer 2: A Military Legal Thriller by Dave Daren

Author:Dave Daren [Daren, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

A crowd had gathered in a circle around me and Clint. Everyone looked surprised, and it wasn’t because a guy in an Army uniform was in the parking lot of the Navy barracks.

The lawyer part of me was almost gleeful because clearly I’d found somebody else who might’ve had a reason to kill James Prentice. And that person had much easier access to the victim than my client and would probably even know his schedule. But the superstitious side of me was waiting for the lightning bolt to strike Clinton Mole for speaking ill of the dead.

Clinton, however, had no such qualms. He was seething, and that anger apparently made him oblivious to the stunned and angry looks that his tirade had evinced. The silence was so thick with tension that it would have been difficult to slice through it with even the sharpest of knives, and I felt the negative energy of everyone turn from me to Mole.

For the first time since I had arrived at Lake Pend Oreille, I wasn’t the most hated person on Navy property.

“How could you say that, Clinton?” a weedy man with large, round glasses that made him look bug-eyed asked. “Prentice was our brother, and someone murdered him. How can you talk about him like that?”

“I can talk about him however I want,” Clinton seethed, and I could tell that he was getting angrier by the second because he now felt cornered. “And he wasn’t my brother. He wasn’t a brother to any of you. Believe me. He wasn’t who you think he was!”

“He served his country alongside us,” a woman said. “That makes him our brother.”

Clinton snorted and shook his head.

“You’re a cold bastard,” the bug-eyed guy asked, and the pain of betrayal was rife within his voice.

“He wasn’t my friend,” Clinton shouted. “He was a traitor. End of story.”

“A traitor?” I asked. “That seems pretty extreme. What could he possibly have done to make you call him a traitor? That’s a serious allegation.”

“You’re dreaming if you think I’m ever gonna talk to you,” Mole said, and he spat on the ground in front of me. “You’re even worse than Prentice because you’re trying to cover all of this up.”

“That’s where you’re wrong,” I replied. “If you knew anything about me, you’d know I’d destroy cover-ups.”

“Yeah, right,” he scoffed. “Well, all I can say is that I wish you the very best of luck.”

I frowned as did most of the other people around us.

“You won’t help, but you’re wishing me good luck,” I said and shook my head.

“Really, I do,” he said. “Because you’re defending the man who got rid of a traitor that was living among us. You’re the pesticide that got rid of the weed that was threatening our crop. All I can really do is thank you.”

The mutterings that had been floating around us suddenly became a roar, and the sailors moved toward us in one swift motion. Mole and I were suddenly surrounded, and though no one swung at me, I was trapped and unable to escape.

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