Unsolicited Contact: A Legal Thriller (Ashley Montgomery Book 4) by Laura Snider

Author:Laura Snider [Snider, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn River Publishing
Published: 2022-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

21

RACHEL

Katie was at the reception desk when Rachel returned to the office.

“Beautiful flowers,” Katie said, nodding to the roses. “Tom said they were yours.”

Rachel’s palms grew slick. It felt an awful lot like the opening lines to an interrogation. “Yeah.”

“Who sent them?”

“I don’t know.”

“It wasn’t a client, was it?”

“I don’t know.”

“Do you think it could have been from a client? We can’t accept gifts from them. We are a government agency.”

“I said I didn’t know.”

“The card wasn’t signed?”

“No. You can look at it if you want.” Rachel almost wished Katie would demand to see it, so she could start the conversation about the letters. Then at least someone else would know her fear and could either calm her down or share in the burden.

“I don’t need to. I trust you.”

For once in her life, Rachel wished that it was the other way around. “You can throw the flowers out if you want to. Just to be safe.”

Katie stared at the beautiful bouquet of blooms, her expression softening. “We might as well leave them here.”

“Okay,” Rachel said, disappointed.

“I’ve got a new client for you,” Katie said as she shifted through a stack of documents on the reception desk. She looked like she was cleaning the area up. Perhaps she was going to fill the position soon. They needed someone there. A gatekeeper to decide who was allowed back to the offices and who needed turning away.

“Who is it?”

“A woman named Trixie. She’s close to your age, and she lives nearby.”

“What is her struggle?”

Katie shrugged. “Her conviction is for possession of meth. It could be addiction alone, or she could be self-medicating to mask another condition. You’ll have to help her set up a mental health evaluation. That way we will know for sure.”

“Okay.”

“Here’s her address,” Katie handed a slip of paper to Rachel. “I told her you’d pop over there today. Do you have time?”

“Yeah. I can go over there now.” Rachel had hoped to stop by Ashley’s office and discuss the mysterious letters with light blue ink, but that could wait. Besides, she didn’t know how long that other attorney would be there and she did not want to come face-to-face with him again.

Trixie lived less than a block away, in one of the apartments above Genie’s Diner. The address said Apartment 2, which meant the upstairs floor. There was no staircase inside the diner, unless it was back in the kitchen, but she doubted that was the case, so she walked around back to find a rickety metal staircase leading up to a landing. She didn’t like the look of the staircase, but she forced herself to ascend.

The landing split at the top, leading to two separate apartments, Apartment 2A and Apartment 2B. She looked down at the slip of paper Katie had handed her. The handwriting was long, thin, and heavily angled, completely unlike the small, careful letters Katie used, so she assumed that Trixie had written it down. It was possible that she’d simply forgotten to include the letter behind the number, but it was more likely that the omission had been intentional.

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