Never Say Never by Taylor Holloway

Author:Taylor Holloway [Holloway, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

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Eva

“Do you want to talk about it?” Charlie asked. He looked stiff and uncomfortable standing in my little living room. It was now well past midnight and we were both exhausted. This awful day just seemed to stretch on and on.

“Which part? How you’re maybe covering up for murderers, or how maybe I’m working for them?”

I buried my face in my couch cushion when I finished talking. My entire body ached like I was coming down with the flu. In reality I knew it was just the stress catching up to me. When Charlie knocked on my door I’d expended the last of my energy to stumble across the room, let him in, and then flop back on the couch.

Charlie knelt in front of me and touched my hair. “Either one.” His voice was quiet and resigned. When I didn’t respond he continued. “Or both. Whatever you want. Whatever will make you feel better.”

I raised my face up out of the cushy feather pillow depths just enough to meet his eyes. “I’m not sure I can do this,” I told him. My voice was muffled by the pillow, but I’m sure my misery still came through. “I’m not sure I want to.”

“You don’t want to be together?” Charlie asked. His voice and face had gone totally neutral. It made me feel ill.

“That’s not what I meant. I want you, but I don’t want this feeling of guilt and suspicion,” I replied. His look of relief was obvious, but I just rambled on because I knew it was premature. “I hate wondering if you’re telling me the whole truth about what you do. I hate how weird everything has been about Edith’s death. I hated how the police acted like you were the enemy when they saw you. What do you really do Charlie? Do you help the Durant family to commit crimes?”

Charlie sat back on his heels and looked at me before slumping over on the ground and putting his back against the couch.

“Until this week I would have said no. Now I’m not so sure.”

I reached out a hand to his shoulder and he turned his head to look at me again.

“What do you mean?”

He looked down into his hands as if he might have the answers written on his palms. “Most of what I’ve done over the past few years has been regular, real legal work. Did it sometimes fall into grey areas? Sure. But it never… it didn’t smell as bad as this does.”

“I still don’t really understand. Could you give me a real example of something else you’ve done? Something non-hypothetical this time?”

His face folded into a deep frown that added years to him. “I’m not supposed to… but fuck it, you need to know everything. I’ve got a great example. Last year Deborah Breyer’s housekeeper’s nineteen-year-old son got arrested on a felony drug charge. Deborah had the kid bailed out and provided an attorney for him—a junior associate I supervised.”

“That doesn’t sound bad at all. It actually sounds very generous of Mrs.

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