The Millionaire: A Maureen Gould Legal Thriller by Keenan Powell

Author:Keenan Powell [Powell, Keenan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Three Hooligans Press LLC
Published: 2024-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter fifteen

Maureen

When I arrived at Tony’s hospital room, he was on his feet, shuffling across the small room, guided by a physical therapist. A sympathetic pain shot down my body as I saw the strain on Tony’s face. Isaac was in the visitor’s chair, staring at the floor, his arms crossed tightly in front of his chest. The guard was seated next to Isaac, reading a newspaper.

I scooted out of the way and put the daisies I’d bought in the hospital gift shop into an empty plastic vase on the window ledge.

The PT helped Tony into bed, plumped his pillow, and tucked him into bed. “That’s enough for today, Tony. You did great. I’ll see you again tomorrow.”

As soon as he was gone, Tony asked, “Where are those nurses? I need my meds.”

“I’ll go find them,” Isaac said, and he left.

I looked at the guard. “Can you give us some privacy for an attorney-client conference?”

He tucked the newspaper under his arm and left the room, leaving the door open. I closed it.

“Is there any news?” Tony asked.

“Vivian Thandi called with a plea offer. She’s offering manslaughter with an agreed sentence of no more than three years.”

“Back to prison? No way. They’ll kill me.”

He was in pain and agitated. I needed to give him the bad news in tiny bites, so he understood exactly what risks he was taking by going to trial.

“There’s something else, Tony. A new witness.”

“Now? Who?”

“A jailhouse snitch.”

I had told Tony time and again not to talk to anyone. It didn’t matter what he said. What mattered is that talking to someone at all gave them an opportunity to fabricate statements. The truth was, Tony had little impulse control. If he spoke to anyone, it would be about how much he hated Oscar, which the DA was going to argue was his motive.

Tony said, “I didn’t say anything to anyone.”

“This guy claims he brought your meals to you when you first were arrested and were in lockdown. And he claims that you told him how much you hated Oscar, about what he did to you, that he ruined your life, that he was living in a nice house and driving a brand-new SUV while you drove an old Gremlin, and that you weren’t sorry he was dead.”

Everything in the snitch’s statement was something that either Tony had told me himself or I knew from the evidence. The snitch could have seen the story about Oscar’s assault of Tony on TV. The news stories following his arrest ran an old interview – that I had advised against – taken by a reporter on the sidewalk in front of his apartment building in which Tony said Oscar had ruined his life. So that bit was in public access. But I couldn’t easily rationalize how the snitch would know that Oscar was living in a nice house and driving a brand-new SUV and that Tony owned a Gremlin. None of that information was in the public arena.

Tony repeated, “I never said a word to anyone, I swear.

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