The Associate by Rachel Sinclair

Author:Rachel Sinclair [Sinclair, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tobann Publications
Published: 2017-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Harper

I answered my phone, seeing that it was Damien calling and I picked up. I was in the lobby of our building, waiting for the elevator. My pre-trial conference for my other murder case didn’t exactly go as planned. My client, David Wilson, was there and he informed me that he wasn’t going to take the prosecutor’s 30-year plea deal. I wanted to brain him when he said that, and I reminded him that he was facing the death penalty if we took the case to trial.

No matter. He wanted his day in court.

I had stewed about this case all the way to my office building, but, at the same time, Damien’s words rang in my ears. Be careful about taking an easy plea deal. The prosecutor probably knows something that you don’t. Or something like that. And that made sense. It did seem that the prosecutor was trying to get rid of this case. I hadn’t yet gotten her discovery on the case, either. I calmed down as I wondered exactly what Montel Jefferson, the prosecutor on this case, might be hiding.

So, it looked like there was a possibility that I had another murder trial on my hands, and I felt like I was going to go bonkers.

“Yeah, Damien,” I said, picking up the phone.

“Harper, are you close to the office?” he asked.

“I’m in the lobby, actually, waiting for the elevator. Why? What’s up?”

“There’s something that you need to see.”

I was immediately curious. “What?”

“You’re in the lobby? You’ll be here soon enough. I’ll show it to you when you get here.”

Now I was good and curious. I hoped that it was good news. After the day I had, I needed a pick-me-up.

I got into the office suite and went to Damien’s office. He wasn’t there, so I went down to the conference room. He was in there, staring at his computer and shaking his head.

“Hey,” I said. “What’s up?”

Damien looked up at me. “What is the possibility that Shelly was suicidal?” he asked without preamble.

“I don’t know, why?”

“Somebody sent us this in the mail,” he said, taking out a thumb drive out of his computer and holding it up. “It’s a video diary. I’ve been watching it for the past several hours. It’s a fascinating look at Shelly’s life. She documented her frustrations, her fears and her dreams. She was really quite funny in a sarcastic type of way. But it’s her final video diary entry that I really want you to see.”

I cocked my head and laid my bag on the conference room table. I went over to Damien’s computer, which was paused. Shelly’s pretty face was frozen on the screen. She had bags under her eyes, and it appeared that she had been crying.

“Now,” Damien said. “I’ll give you a brief synopsis of what she was saying in her earlier entries. She talked about how she hates her father and how she was excited to get married to Yasin. She also seemed pretty amped about her job with Erik’s clan.

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