Love Lives Again by Jerry Cole

Author:Jerry Cole [Cole, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-02-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Two months later:

Luke ducked into the storage room as his phone began to buzz and then ring loudly. He quickly apologized to Lorrie, the chef he had been talking to as he scurried around the corner and through the doors, and she laughed and waved him off. He pulled the phone out and saw Leslie’s name on the screen. His stomach clenched.

“Hello?”

“We have a court date.”

Luke swallowed hard and tried to keep his emotions under control. He wasn’t succeeding. He was in the process of organizing for a small anniversary party in Snoqualmie, WA and everything was going fairly well, but the call from his lawyers had sent everything spinning.

“Luke? Luke, are you there?”

“Yeah… yeah, sorry, Leslie. Just had a moment. When is the court date?”

“January 5th. They tried again to get us to settle out of court, but the money they’re offering is still just insulting.” She sighed heavily. “Are you okay?”

“I’m… just overwhelmed. Kind of caught between glad this is moving forward and dreading what will happen on the court date, you know? Wondering if I did the right thing. Wondering if my parents would have wanted me to handle their deaths like this.”

“I wish I could answer those questions for you, but from what we’ve dug up, The Walfords have been covering up shit like this for years from several members of the family, and now they just think they own the city, so they don’t even have to deal with it at all. I’m still angry at how gutless the prosecutors and cops are being about all of this.”

“Yeah… I just worry people will see me doing this when the business is struggling and think it’s just about the money and not about justice.”

“Who cares what they think? Even if it were just for the money, your parents loved their catering company, and trying to save it isn’t a crime.”

Luke sighed. “Yeah… I guess you’re right.”

“I’m usually right. You’ll get used to it.” Her tone was light. “The other good news is that we finally got the records regarding what his blood alcohol levels were after the crash.”

“Really? I thought they were claiming it was all lost for good.”

“They were… and I’ll give them credit, it sure as shit took forever to get them, but eventually I managed to locate the original blood samples. They were retested, and he was almost three times the legal limit.”

“But that was why the DA claimed he couldn’t charge Brock Walford…”

“Sure was. Now he has no excuse, and everyone is going to know it. I think this is going to set off a huge stink of a criminal trial, and if the DA is smart, he’ll press charges before this goes to court. I’m not going to hold my breath about it, though.”

“Yeah…” Luke swallowed hard again. “This just keeps getting crazier and crazier.”

“They may try to talk us into an out of court agreement now and offer a lot more money. What do you want to do if that’s the case?”

“I…” Luke paused.

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