The Family Lawyer by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 1538711338
Amazon: B071V51SLD
Barnesnoble: B071V51SLD
Goodreads: 31310035
Publisher: BookShots
Published: 2017-09-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

He should be asleep, but the morning’s events have left him jittery and full of questions. Why was Cheryl barred from the scene, sequestered in the back of an unmarked car? Are the protesters a curse or a blessing? Do they heighten Cheryl’s need for salvation or simply draw attention away from his cause? Will the public see her liberation as an act of mercy or justice?

He gets up, switches on the television. He is not by nature a news junkie, but lately he cannot tear himself away.

It isn’t long before the midday anchor turns his attention to the Night Sniper, or rather to Cheryl by way of the Night Sniper. Detective Mabern has been suspended. A new witness has come forward in the Jesse Smits shooting.

After a quick recap of the Smits case, a pundit with some vague affiliation to the NYPD speculates that this witness may be a plant—a convenient way of lifting Mabern from the task force without overtly bowing to public pressure.

Miles stands, starts to pace.

It’s as if he is a mere sidebar, as if his kills are nothing more than a footnote to the ongoing coverage of Detective Cheryl Mabern’s tumultuous career. She has become his rival in more ways than one.

But Miles cannot allow himself to be derailed by petty jealousy. Granting liberation to the person who would bring him low will be the Night Sniper’s crowning achievement. In time, people will come to recognize his dedication and sacrifice. Miles will emerge on the right side of history. He will bring Cheryl with him.

The news cuts to a commercial. Miles begins to flip stations, stops when he notices an envelope shoved partway under his front door. No doubt a neighbor correcting one of the mail carrier’s innumerable mistakes.

He shuts off the television, crosses to the entryway, pulls the envelope inside. Calligraphic writing on the front and back, RSVP across the seal. From Amy Winston and Ronald Affif. The card inside describes their impending marriage as a “blessed union.”

Miles feels nothing but scorn. Their union is more banal than blessed—the joining together of two people as they march blindly down the path dictated by their narrow imaginations. A doctor and lawyer marriage—the white-class equivalent of cop and nurse.

That isn’t love, Miles thinks. It’s people doing what they’re told.

Amy is the opposite of Jarry’s distressed souls, the opposite of Miles’s “victims.” She is a pretty facade with no substance; there is nothing in her for the Sniper to liberate.

But Cheryl, on the other hand…

Cheryl, with her history of mental illness, is not only alone in the world, she is at odds with it. Now, more than ever, she must feel her solitude bearing down on her. Now, more than ever, she must long for release.

But how will he give it to her?

It occurs to him in a sudden and painful flash that Cheryl’s suspension means she is no longer working the case. And if she is no longer working the case, then he cannot contact her at the precinct.

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