Spirit of the Law by Carsen Taite

Author:Carsen Taite [Taite, Carsen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635557671
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2020-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Summer listened to Mary and Owen outline the major points in the case, taking her through the key evidence on the whiteboard, and she began to wonder what she was doing here. The charge was simple, felony murder. Art Fuentes had committed the crime of burglary by breaking into Commissioner Adams’s house and killing Mrs. Adams while he was there. Fuentes hadn’t said a word since his arrest and he had no known ties to the Adams family or to the commissioner’s court, the upshot being there was no underlying motive for the killing other than Mrs. Adams had surprised him and he’d killed her to keep her from being able to ID him. If Joule hadn’t been out walking his dog that night and observed Fuentes running from the back door, he might’ve escaped undetected. With Joule’s testimony, the guilt-innocence part of the case was open-and-shut, and with Fuentes’s record, a jury would likely have no problem sending him away for a very long time. The facts were straightforward, and Summer couldn’t help but think her presence here seemed superfluous.

“Anything stand out to you?” Owen asked.

Summer pursed her lips like she was thinking really hard, but she didn’t have much to add. “You said they found the murder weapon, the gun, outside the house. Were there any prints?”

“How do you not already know?” a voice from behind her said. The three of them turned toward the door to see Kira, Owen’s investigator, walk into the room. “Shouldn’t we be asking you the questions? Or do we even need to ask since you can probably already tell us what we want to know. I mean, isn’t that what a mind-reader does?”

“Ease up, Kira,” Owen said, flashing her a stern look. “We’re going through the evidence with Summer. She’s going to be working with us for the duration of the trial.” Whether we like it or not.

Summer smiled and stuck out her hand. Kira stared at it for a moment before gripping it hard, like she was trying to establish her dominance. “Looking forward to working with you,” Summer lied. “And I’m a psychic medium, not a mind-reader. I get it can be confusing.”

“Tell you what I’m not confused about—whatever you have to offer is not admissible in a court of law,” Kira said.

“You’d be surprised.”

Owen cleared her throat and Summer looked in her direction. “Sorry, I guess we’re getting off track.”

Mary held up a hand. “Hold up. What exactly is a psychic medium?” She pointed at her chest. “Dying to know here.”

Summer glanced at Owen, who nodded for her to answer. “Generally speaking, a medium gets their intel from communications with people who have passed on, and a psychic intuits information from other sources, vibrations and the like. Sometimes, the talents overlap, and sometimes a person has both abilities.”

“And you’re one of those people?” Kira asked, skeptically.

“Yes. Information is shown to me by spirits of the dead, but also by vibrations from the living.”

“‘Shown’ to you?” Mary asked.

“Good catch,” Summer said.

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