the Associate (2002) by Margolin Phillip

Author:Margolin, Phillip [Phillip, Margolin,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-01-13T03:03:01.234000+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six.

Daniel was so stunned at the speed with which his bail hearing ended that he barely heard the legal arguments. As soon as the judge ruled, the guards took him back to jail, where he waited to be processed out. Daniel had spent the past week tamping down his emotions, but he finally let himself believe that he would soon be out of jail. When the numbness wore off he became euphoric and he stayed high until it dawned on him that he was still the defendant in a murder case. He had been freed because there was no corroboration for April Fairweather's testimony, but what would happen when the police talked to Renee Gilchrist? Would she tell them about his phone call on the afternoon of the murder? Was that enough evidence to change the judge's mind about bail? By the time Daniel's property was returned, depression had set in.

Amanda had arranged to have the jail release Daniel through the garage so he could avoid the press. She told him that someone would be waiting for him. Daniel expected to see Amanda's investigator, but Kate Ross was standing in the shadows of the garage when he walked out of the jail. She flashed a big smile and Daniel's depression evaporated as soon as she hugged him.

"You don't smell too bad," Kate joked after she let him go.

Daniel's face split with a huge grin. "Neither do you."

"Come on. Let's get something to eat," Kate said. Daniel had not thought about food all day, but he was suddenly famished.

"You up for baloney on white or something a little more exotic?" Kate asked.

"I'm up for anything that is not baloney on white."

Kate's car was parked a block away. As they walked to it Daniel savored the heat of the sun, the brush of the breeze on his face, and the knowledge that he could walk to Kate's car or not, as he chose.

"How are you feeling?" Kate asked when they were on the road.

"Okay. I sort of shut down when I was in jail. It's going to take me a while to believe I'm really out."

"Amanda's good," Kate reassured him. "She'll keep you out."

"I'll say she's good." Then Daniel remembered Amanda's cryptic remark. "When I thanked her for winning the bail hearing Amanda said that I have a guardian angel. Do you know what she meant?"

Kate's smile disappeared. "Yeah, I do. We talked about it this morning. Amanda destroyed Fairweather because she received a videotape of a speech Fairweather gave a few years ago. She was talking to a group of so-called satanic ritual abuse survivors and she told them that she had been a victim of a satanic cult. Most of what Amanda used in her cross was in Fairweather's speech."

"Who gave Amanda the tape?"

"It was sent anonymously. She thought that I sent it."

"But you didn't?"

"I've seen the tape. It was in Fairweather's case file at the office," Kate said in obvious distress. "I wanted to tell Amanda about it, but I couldn't for the same reason I couldn't investigate Fairweather for Amanda.

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