Guilty or Knot by Emily James

Author:Emily James [James, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988480398
Publisher: Stronghold Books
Published: 2019-07-31T21:00:00+00:00

15

Andrea’s concerns about Zach had gotten deep enough inside my head that I didn’t feel comfortable inviting him to my house. It was silly. He said he was innocent. Even if he wasn’t, he was my client with no reason to hurt me. Velma would have been there, and she certainly wouldn’t have let him hurt me.

But I wasn’t willing to take the risk. Especially not when doing so would prove Russ right that I was only thinking of myself and not thinking about my baby.

Instead, I made an appointment to meet with him at the office. That’s what it was for, after all.

We met the next day, first thing in the morning, after he got off the night shift.

He looked different than the first time I met him. Worse. His skin had the pasty look of someone who hadn’t been out in the sun after a long winter, despite the fact that this had been an unseasonably warm May. It was like we’d skipped most of spring and went straight from winter to summer. The news blamed it on global warming.

I couldn’t imagine the toll working in an emergency room must take on a person. Each day you’d see the worst of what happened in the world. The potential trauma from that wouldn’t be as bad as what first responders experienced, but it’d only be one step down.

Thankfully, he’d changed out of his scrubs. Unfortunately, he still had that strange antiseptic smell clinging to him.

I led him back to my office and set the list of names down on the desk in front of him. I’d taken the phone numbers off.

I took my spot on the other side of my desk, but the smell of disinfectant felt like it wrapped around my throat, trying to choke me. It hadn’t seemed this strong out in the open area of reception. In the smaller space of my office, it clogged up my nose so I could barely breathe.

An overly warm sensation rose up in my throat, and I swallowed rapidly. Now was not the time to be sick to my stomach again.

One of the tricks I’d developed was to keep my mind active. Staring at him while he read the names on the paper didn’t fit the bill.

I coughed to loosen my throat. “The prosecution will be calling anyone to the stand who might know of a reason you would want to kill Jordan. They’ll give us a list of names, but they won’t tell us what they know. Can you think of anyone who might believe you would kill Jordan?”

He stopped writing next to one of the names on the paper. He’d jotted the word aunt next to the woman’s name who shared their last name.

“Unless they’re going to dredge up sibling rivalry or that we sometimes disagreed over what to do with our father’s estate, they won’t find a motive.” His voice was level, almost monotone. “I thought we covered that already.”

In a way, we had, but I hadn’t looked into his case myself yet at that point.

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