Secrets in Cypress Bayou by Susan Sands

Author:Susan Sands
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781957748337
Publisher: Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2022-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Tanner hadn’t gotten this far in his career without making a few friends in city hall. He and Alan Litrell, the newly elected district attorney, were downright friendly, as luck would have it. Litrell had grown up in Cypress Bayou and played football with Tanner in high school. He was an amazing athlete and had gone on to be a solid quarterback at NSU before heading to law school at Southern in Baton Rouge.

Carson didn’t have the younger generation of politicians quite so tidily wrapped up in his grip like the older ones. In fact, on several occasions Tanner had heard Carson cursing Litrell’s disinterest in becoming a political lackey of his.

Tanner called the DA’s office and asked to speak with him. After being put on hold and some shuffling around of phone lines, they were connected. “Hey, Tanner, how’s it goin’, man?”

“It’s going all right, all told. Listen, I don’t want to take up your time, but I’ve got a unique situation brewing here and I’d hoped we could sit down and discuss it.”

“Sure. How do you feel about a lunch meeting? I can’t seem to get anything done without interruptions unless I’m eating.” Tanner understood what he meant. Sometimes, when he was at Carson’s practice and juggling a full load of clients, he’d had to leave the office to get anything accomplished. Not so much now since he couldn’t bill anyone.

“I get it. Lunch sounds great. Let me know when and where and I’ll meet you.”

“Great. I’ll have my assistant contact you once she checks my calendar. Good to hear from you, Tanner.”

Fortunately, Alan had an opening for lunch today. His assistant called right back to confirm their meeting for noon at Laborde’s Meat Pie Kitchen. Tanner’s mouth watered thinking about it.

“I’m meeting with the DA for lunch to discuss our next move to open a missing person’s case for Marie,” Tanner called out to Carly who was working in her own office. They’d begun a habit of projecting somewhat loudly down the hall if the other person wasn’t obviously on the phone or nobody was in the office.

Tanner heard her footsteps coming down the hall after she’d pushed back her rolling chair, with its slight squeak, from her desk. He could identify every sound and movement in the office. Imogene was tapping away on her keyboard up front entering client information.

They’d had lots of phone calls in the past few days since the website had gone live. The schedule was booking up for new client meetings. Since the court appearance with Carson and Judge Keller was scheduled in a week, they’d pushed all the new potential clients until the following week.

Carly stood in front of his desk. “How do you plan to present this to the DA?”

“Have a seat.” She sat, folding her long legs into the chair across from him. Tanner worked hard to accustom himself to having a young, gorgeous associate in his line of vision during business hours. But sometimes, when she appeared

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