The Rain Series 5: Through the Storm by Vanessa Miller

Author:Vanessa Miller [Miller, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Urban, Mystery & Suspense, Fiction, United States, Christian Fiction, African American, Religion & Spirituality, Genre Fiction, Christian Books & Bibles, Literature & Fiction
Amazon: B004TM9G6O
Publisher: BFP Publishing
Published: 2013-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Just as Iona predicted, Isaac wasn’t released until Friday morning. Nina ran to him and hugged her man. Iona stood back and watched them, wishing that she would one day find a love like theirs or even the love that her mother had found with Keith.

Isaac and Nina walked toward her, arm in arm. Her father smiled at her and said, “Well, Baby Girl, your daddy’s a free man.”

“And I intend to make sure you stay free,” Iona told him.

He winked. “I knew I hired myself the best lawyer in this city.”

Iona shook her head. “This city is too small. I’m the best lawyer in the world, Daddy. But that’s beside the point. When this is all over, I never want to represent you again. Okay?”

“You got a deal.” He put his free arm around Iona’s shoulders and said, “Let’s go home.”

“Wait, Daddy. We need to go out the back way. Reporters are lined up just waiting on you to come out of this place,” Iona told him.

“I won’t hide from anyone, Baby Girl. I’m an innocent man. Let them prove otherwise.” He turned and walked out the door with his head held high.

Iona had no Johnny Cochran and F. Lee Bailey delusions as she followed her father out the door. She wanted to protect her father, not exploit him. And it was at that moment that she faced the fact that she had lost her soul to her job. She became a lawyer to protect the innocent. But somehow she’d lost sight of that when the money started coming in. She stopped caring who was innocent and only cared if her client could foot the bill. Iona looked at the throng of reporters waiting on her father and she turned her attention to heaven. She promised God that if He would help her get her father out of this mess, she would become the type of lawyer her clients could count on.

A blonde haired, blue eyed reporter Iona recognized from Channel 2 news put her microphone in Isaac’s face and asked, “Did you do it, Pastor? Did you kill that young man after he attended your service?”

Another reporter, this one was a nappy-head with brown eyes and a Brooks Brothers suit on asked, “How do you think your congregation will feel after their pastor has been arrested for such a heinous crime?”

Iona ushered him through the crowd screaming, “No comment! No comment!” as the stalkerazzi continued to pounce on her father.

When one of the reporters/stalkers asked Isaac, “Why did you murder that young man, Pastor Walker?”

Isaac stopped, turned toward the cameras and said, “I am not this monster you believe me to be. I love this city and the people in it. I have worked for decades to try and make it a better place for all of us. I could never harm Dwight or anyone else.”

***

“Ah but you did harm someone else, and for that you will pay big, Isaac Walker,” JL said as he sat in his office watching the afternoon news.

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