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“Do you believe him?”
“I do.”
“Delay the trial. You have to get a new jury, maybe a new location outside the city.”
He gives a shake of his head. “She won’t let me.”
I blanch. “What? Why?”
“She wants it over. She says she’s considered suicide from the stress of it all.”
“Please tell me you got her help.”
He scrubs his jaw. “I’m trying. I want you to talk to her.”
“Of course,” I say. “I’ll do what I can. You believe her right? The suicide thing isn’t guilt?”
“I’m sure there is guilt there but not for the murder. There’s no evidence but her inheritance to convict her. The man was evil, which I’m going to show in court. He destroyed people and hurt people just because he could. I don’t think her feelings were abnormal.”
“I need to see if I can rework my column for tomorrow and include this.” I grab his phone. “I have to call my editor and you need one hell of an opening statement.”
“Now you know why I say my opening sucks.”
“Yeah. It’s obsolete now.” I punch in Melanie, my editor’s, number.
“Cat,” Melanie greets. “Why did I know I’d be getting this call? Yes, you can have time to rework tomorrow’s column.”
“How long?”
“I need it now.”
“I need two hours.”
“You can have one.”
“Two it is.”
“Cat—”
“You know you want that voicemail covered and you know readers are going to look to me to see what I say. My husband is the defense counsel.”
“Fine. Two.”
We disconnect and I look at Reese. “I have to work on my column and you have to work on your opening but for both, I told Elsa, this wasn’t the opposing counsel. They’d—”
“—wait until, mid-trial when we couldn’t move the trial. Agreed. So who the hell did this?”
“The boyfriend. It has to be him.”
“It’s too obvious,” he argues.
“Right. It is. And yet sometimes that’s what makes things less obvious.”
“Don’t point a finger at him,” he says. “I need him on the stand, on our side.”
“No one walks away from that kind of money, he said. He’s the boyfriend. Were they engaged? Because maybe he was afraid she would walk away and he’d get screwed.”
“And I plan to go there with him on the stand, but I need him to say the right things, to help my client, first. But if he killed the father, why release the voicemail?”
