Ties That Bind (2003) by Phillip - Jaffe 2 Margolin

Author:Phillip - Jaffe 2 Margolin [Margolin, Phillip - Jaffe 2]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-03-18T15:58:53+00:00

twenty-seven

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The reporters were waiting when Tim Kerrigan and Maria Lopez left the courtroom. Most of the spectators were gone, but Kerrigan noticed a young blond woman with sunglasses, dressed in jeans, a T-shirt, and a leather jacket, leaning against a marble pillar and studying him with intense concentration. A cameraman moved and blocked his view. When the cameraman moved again, she was gone.

As soon as the press conference was over, Stan Gregaros and Sean McCarthy joined the prosecutors.

"What did you think about the hearing?" Kerrigan asked the detectives.

"Slam dunk," Gregaros answered. "You're gonna have a ball at the trial if Jaffe sticks with her bullshit theory that Dupre acted in self-defense."

"We've got some more evidence to use against Dupre," McCarthy said. "Remember Rittenhouse telling us that Travis said that 'Jon' was going to make everything okay on the night of the murder?"

Kerrigan nodded.

"I had Dupre's phone records sent over. A call was made from his house to Travis's place in Dunthorpe on the evening Travis was killed."

"Another nail in Johnny boy's coffin," Gregaros said.

The detectives and the prosecutors conferred for a few more minutes before Tim and Maria took the elevator to the district attorney's office.

"I've actually got some work to do in another case, Maria," Kerrigan said. "Why don't you do some research on the evidentiary issues we talked about and we'll touch base tomorrow."

"I'll get right on it."

Maria walked away and Kerrigan entered his office. He dumped his files onto his desk and hung his jacket on a hook, closing the door behind him. As he was loosening his tie, he found himself remembering the blonde he'd seen briefly in the courthouse. Something about her seemed familiar.

Kerrigan's intercom buzzed.

"There's a Miss Jasmine on line two," his secretary said.

Kerrigan froze, and in that second he pictured the blonde again and knew for a fact that she was Ally Bennett.

Kerrigan lifted the receiver.

"Hello, Frank," a husky and familiar voice said.

"I think you've got the wrong person," he said carefully.

"Do I, Frank? Should I go to the press and let them sort it out?"

"I don't think you'd get very far."

"You don't think they'd be interested in a story about a DA who is prosecuting a pimp while having very raunchy sex with one of his whores?"

Tim closed his eyes and forced himself to stay calm. "What do you want?"

"Let's meet where we did the last time and I'll tell you in person. Eight o'clock. Don't be late, Frank, or Jasmine will be very angry."

Kerrigan felt himself begin to grow hard as an image from their last meeting was triggered by her words. An insane desire to have sex with Jasmine again welled up in Kerrigan, despite the knowledge that meeting with her could only lead to his destruction.

Then he thought about Cindy. Something was going on between them that he hadn't anticipated. They had grown closer since she'd comforted him after his return from Senator Travis's crime scene. When he made love to his wife, there was none of

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