Most Wanted by Lisa Scottoline

Author:Lisa Scottoline
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781250088123
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-six

Christine and Marcus waited for Gary in his office, sitting in the chairs across from the lawyer’s ornate desk, having been served coffee in real china cups and saucers by his niece Theresa. Christine and Marcus had barely exchanged a word this morning, avoiding each other while they’d showered and dressed for the meeting, Christine into a blue oxford shirtdress and Marcus in a tan suit with a silk tie because he was going to work later. She was going home afterwards, so they had driven here separately, which was merciful. Christine imagined that a car ride together would have been miserable.

“Hello, Nilssons!” Gary boomed, clapping his hands together as he entered his office, scampered around his desk, and plopped into his ergonomic throne. “Sorry about that! Nature called! Ring, ring!”

“Good to see you, Gary,” Marcus said stiffly.

“Yes, hi, Gary,” Christine added.

“Glad you could come in. I love that we’re jumping right on this, no waiting.” Gary opened a manila folder on his desk, extracted two slim packets of papers from inside, and slid them across his glistening desk, one to Marcus and another to Christine. “I’ll take you through our suit papers, so you understand them completely.”

“Gary,” Marcus said, calmly, “before we do that, there’s something you should know. I could explain, but I’ll let Christine.”

Gary turned to Christine, his good cheer clouding over. “Don’t tell me you got cold feet. Did you get cold feet, Christine?”

“No, it’s not that.” Christine braced herself. “This weekend, I went to Graterford Prison with Lauren, and we interviewed Zachary Jeffcoat. I pretended I was a reporter and I didn’t tell him who I really was. He told me that he’s Donor 3319.”

“Are you for real?” Gary blinked in astonishment, then broke into a grin.

“Yes, it’s true,” Christine answered, confused. She hadn’t anticipated a favorable reaction. She was expecting that Gary would be as angry as Marcus, except for the jealousy part.

“That’s amazing! You went right to the source, eh? You used self-help, I love it. I didn’t know you had it in you, teach.”

“Neither did I,” Christine blurted out, with an abrupt laugh, like a release of pressure.

Gary laughed. “With clients like you, I’d be out of business.”

Marcus looked from Christine to Gary, incredulous. “What the hell? Are you two insane?”

“Hold on.” Gary held up a hand. “Let me get the facts—”

“Gary, what facts? What other facts do you need?” Marcus shook his head in disbelief, which seemed as fresh as last night. “Don’t you realize how dangerous that was, what she did? Going into prison? I looked it up online last night, it’s maximum-security. You know the animals that are in there?”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow your roll.” Gary leaned over the desk, his smile fading. “I told you before about the plumbers in my family. That’s my father’s side. My mother’s side, they’re crooks. Petty crooks, not mobsters. Not mob. Not Mafia. Not every Italian-American is connected, is what I’m saying.”

“What’s your point?”

“That people in prison are still people. I spent my childhood visiting my uncle and my nephew in prison.

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