Rough Justice by Smith Brad

Author:Smith, Brad [Smith, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2015-08-27T19:00:00+00:00

He backed off. ‘I’m speaking hypothetically.’

‘Are you really?’ Kate asked. ‘What’s going to come up?’

Dunmore took a drink of beer and shook his head, as if chastising himself for saying too much. ‘It’s just … I heard something from a cop. Might be bullshit. You know what cops are like.’

‘Tell me,’ Kate said.

Kate drove directly to the courthouse from the bar. Prosecutor Grant was not there but as the receptionist was explaining to Kate that she wouldn’t be able to see him without an appointment, he walked through the door. He told her to come into his office.

‘Do you want coffee?’ he asked.

Kate declined. She leaned her crutches inside the door and sat. Grant went behind his desk and glanced at a computer screen there, scrolling quickly through his e-mails.

‘What did you do to your leg?’ he asked while he read.

She told him, providing more detail than she had with Dunmore a half hour earlier. Grant, finished with his e-mail, leaned back from the monitor as she told it.

‘Did you at least score the run?’

‘Out by a country mile.’

Grant smiled. ‘So how’s it going?’

‘You mean the knee?’

‘No.’

‘It’s going all right.’

Grant nodded. He seemed to want to ask why she was there, but he wouldn’t hurry her. ‘We never really talked after the trial,’ he said. ‘That seems to be the way it goes when a case—’ he hesitated – ‘when a case is unsuccessful. But you should know that I thought you did a good job. Whatever the problems, they had nothing to do with you.’

‘So what now?’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Are you still investigating him?’

‘Are we still investigating The Mayor?’ Grant repeated, as if asking himself the question. ‘No,’ he said slowly. ‘I’m sorry, Kate. It’s over.’

She watched him a moment. He was a decent man, she had decided early on, and she still thought so. But he’d moved on, which meant he wasn’t going to like what was coming next.

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