Janardi and His Muse: A Rags to Romance Book by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe [Monroe, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

SEVEN MONTHS LATER

“Time served?”

“That’s the deal.”

“And probation?”

“No probation.”

“Community service?”

“Nada. Time served. Nothing more.”

But Vivian was unbelieving. She had been rotting away in that filthy county jail for over seven months waiting for her trial to begin and not even a whisper about any such deal. But now, on the day before her trial was set to start, and as soon as she walked into the lawyers’ visiting room to meet with her attorney and map out their court strategy, she had a deal.

It would have made more sense to Vivian had the prosecution not insisted all along that she would get ten years at least, but probably more even if she copped a plea. And her brother, according to them, would get an even harsher sentence because they had video evidence, they claimed, that showed how he helped Kirby on many of his steals. But now this hotshot lawyer that she’d only seen once before, which was on the day of her arrest when the judge wouldn’t grant her bail, was telling her he’d struck a deal with those same prosecutors?

“Forgive me for being skeptical,” she said to the great Theordore Goldberg. “But why would they give me a sweetheart deal like that when they said I wouldn’t serve less than a decade behind bars even with a deal?”

“That’s their scare tactics. Start high as the sky, then work their way down to reasonable ground. Depending on your attorney’s reputation, they will barely move off of that position, or they will move completely off of that position. I have a great reputation. They moved way off.”

“You didn’t tell me it worked like that.”

“That’s not my job. My job is to get you out of here. I’ve done my job.”

“And you said no probation?”

“No probation. No community service. None of that shit. Time served and that’s it. We’ll tell the judge you will be a productive citizen. You already have a job and--”

“What job? I don’t have a job.”

Theo was confused. He began looking through his notes. “I’m sure I saw where you owned a cleaning service before you got locked up?”

“But I don’t own it anymore.”

“But didn’t you get a contract with HOJ? I know I read that somewhere.”

“We signed the contract on behalf of our business the day before I was arrested, yes. But my best friend’s boyfriend ended up taking over just to keep it afloat. I had to sign over my rights to the company or Mason would have refused to take over.”

“How’s it doing now?”

“Nayla, that’s my best friend, said it’s doing good. They were able to fulfill that HOJ contract, which led to other contracts too.”

“Then I’m sure if it’s doing that well then this Mason person will be willing to hire you as a permanent maid. Right?”

Vivian was still smarting over that takeover. But she was locked up, Nayla was going through a messy divorce, and Mason had the wherewithal to keep the business afloat. She had asked if she could keep a stake in the business, but he said no.

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