The Lawyer's Truth (Cadence Elliott Legal Thriller Series Book 2) by J.J. Miller

Author:J.J. Miller [Miller, J.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Innkeeper Publishing
Published: 2021-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

On the forty-minute drive out to Potomac to visit Beth Marshall-Newhouse, Cadence kept her eyes on the road, but her mind wandered elsewhere. It had been two weeks since that day of unfolding drama with Bob and Kovalenko, and her life and emotions had returned to something that resembled normal. The material Kovalenko had shown her and his concern for her welfare had been noted, but she had gone to work the next morning and resumed her focus on Brandon Colter’s case, albeit with a fresh angle of international intrigue thrown into the mix.

She had already decided what to do with the Kovalenko intel. She was not going to bother Lee Parkinson and Duncan Meeks with phone calls and ambushes. She was happy to wait and compel them to appear in court as witnesses for the defense in Colter’s trial.

Gripping the wheel of her metallic blue 3 Series BMW, she smiled, feeling the contentment of being in control of what she could control, and letting go for the moment of what she could not. She granted herself a moment of self-care. Some of the therapy she had received over the years must have sunk in. Every now and then, she would remind herself of how much she had accomplished and how proud she should be.

No one at Hardwick and Henshaw had a clue where she had come from exactly, but a trailer park in Colorado Springs would have been no one’s guess.

Except now, one person knew pretty much everything. Confiding in Bob had been a therapy session in and of itself. In the days that followed, Cadence had grown less anxious about revealing things she had kept buried deep for so long. She felt less alone with her secret, and a little less apt to punish herself. Bob’s sympathy had somehow legitimized the idea that she was worth more than she had given herself credit for in the past.

She hated the term “self-care”, with its weak and superficial connotations, but she could feel its genuine worth. She was a long way from being healed, but for the first time in what seemed like forever, Cadence allowed herself to think that it was unfair to judge herself too harshly. No, she was not letting herself completely off the hook. Her demons were not expunged. But there at least was a path to forgiving herself. A small one. And that fragment of respite was a nourishing ray of sunshine on her soul.

As she closed in on Beth’s address, Cadence was stunned by the houses in Potomac. One mansion after another lined the streets, but not close together—they were spread out on generous plots of land and skirted by manicured lawns and gardens. By comparison, Beth’s sprawling two-story home on a generous block backing onto the river looked quaint.

Steering the car up the driveway loop in front of the house, Cadence passed a full-sized basketball court. She parked, and walked up to the broad wooden double doors. When she pressed the buzzer, she could hear the sound of door chimes ringing through the house.

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