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“Trust me, I have it under control.”
Trust him. A man who has caused Cat all kinds of pain.
He seems to read my mind. “She’s my sister, Reese. I do love her.”
“Tell her that. It won’t matter coming from me. Do this for me for all the shit I’ve done for you.” I hang up and round the corner to our team’s private hallway. Elsa rushes toward me. “We have a problem. Dana had a fight with Reginald and ten minutes later, Richard saw the DA talking to him.”
“I’ve been gone half an hour. How did she have a fight with that man that pushed him to the DA that quickly?”
“Like you said, quickly,” she says. “She called him on her break and then she was shouting at him.”
“What did she say?”
“Name calling, but nothing of substance. It was fast.”
I rub the tension at the back of my neck. “Where is she?”
“Conference room.”
I cut around her and head down the hall, opening the door to find Dana pacing. “I failed miserably at being nice to him. I know he released that audio. I feel it. It’s eating at me. He’s the only one that gains from my father’s death directly if I inherit and he marries me,” she runs a hand through her hair. “I hate this money. I will never know if anyone wants me for me.”
This makes me think of Cat, and how much it meant to me that my money wasn’t a motivation to her. I didn’t have to wonder. She had her own money. “Marry a rich man. That’s not him.”
“I wanted to marry someone I loved but—did he kill my father and let me go through this hell?”
I walk to the conference table across from her but I don’t answer her question. “He was just talking to the prosecutor. What does he have on you?”
“He talked to the prosecutor?”
“Right after you fought.”
“I have not lied to you. There is nothing. That call was the only time I said anything like what I said and I was at my wit’s end. He knew it though. He didn’t want me to walk away from the money.”
“You think he did it?”
“It’s clawing at me,” she says. “I think he might have. I don’t want that to be true. That means he doesn’t love me. I want to take him down.”
“Then make nice with him until I get him on the stand and off. I cannot have him turn on you, in front of the jury.”
“I’m trying.”
“Try harder Dana.”
A knock sounds on the door and a guard pokes his head in. “The judge wants to see you in chambers.”
“That doesn’t sound good,” Dana says. “Right?”
It’s a problem, I think, but I say, “It happens. It’ll happen again after this time. Pull yourself together. Figure out how to reel your man back in.” I don’t wait for a reply. I turn and head into the hallway while the guard motions me forward.
Elsa quickly catches up. “What’s happening?”
“The judge wants to see me.”
“Any idea why?”
“None.”
“I bet it has to do with that meeting Richard saw.”
