Confessions by Caro Land

Author:Caro Land [Land, Caro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781913419585
Publisher: Bloodhound Books - crime, thriller and mystery
Published: 2020-06-09T22:00:00+00:00

21

Here and There

Until the sudden influx of chatter at eleven, Nat had forgotten it was silver surfer morning. Looking at the huge ‘to read’ pile of letters, she sighed. At least forty envelopes had been fired through the office letterbox this morning. Not just correspondence, but medical reports, CPS disclosure, utility bills, pleadings and court orders. The Magic Circular magazine too. Had Postman Pat been hoarding them? And that was on top of the million emails which were waiting in the firm’s inbox. But at least she’d had a couple of hours reading through files, making calls and staring at Gavin’s diary. Lists being the answer to every admin trauma, she’d compiled another one, prioritising his cases in order of urgent, urgenter and urgentest. God knows how he managed to spin all the plates full time. The help of Larry and Robbie was invaluable, but she still hadn’t got a handle on when they worked and when they didn’t.

‘Gav has a brain the size of his penis,’ Joshim Khan once quipped.

Gavin and Joshim’s humorous fencing was usually derogatory, so she’d assumed he had meant both were small, but now she wondered. She hadn’t known the Rabid Scot that well at law college. He’d shared a house with Wes and some other lads on the same Chester street as her and her friends. Thinking back, there was some mention of Cambridge, but she’d thought the others were taking the piss; a burly, beer-guzzling, non-PC Glaswegian didn’t seem the usual recipe for Oxbridge.

The thought of asking Wes popped in her head. Her stupid mind still did this from time to time; that split second of thinking everything was fine until she registered it wasn’t. She pushed the discomfort away; Wes had made his position quite clear, and far more pressing things than an aching heart were going on in the folders on her desk, let alone beyond the office.

She peered at her tally of ‘calls to return’. Jack’s name was included. Should she begin with him or keep that conversation for the end? There were pros and cons to each, but in truth Jack Goldman was always number one. She couldn’t say whether it was affection and loyalty or irritation and annoyance, but she called him first anyway.

‘Seventh hole,’ he said. ‘I birdied the third and fourth. Got an eagle on the fifth.’

‘What is this? The Master’s latest leaderboard hotline?’

‘No, it means I’m busy and we should have a drink later to celebrate my hole-in-one.’

‘Wow, a hole-in-one too?’

‘Not yet, but I will. I’ll text.’

Smiling, she swung on the seat. Sod it, it was affection and loyalty every time. A dose of annoyance and irritation, certainly, but at the end of the day, love. Her dad had died the same month she’d joined Goldman Law; she’d swapped an angry old father who’d never appeared to give a damn, for a younger, charismatic and encouraging one. The thought reminded her of the Harrow saga. She tapped her nails on the desk. She and Issa hadn’t spoken since the car park conversation.

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