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“You would have freaked if you knew Dan had a relative at the publishing house. And you would have thought that you couldn’t decline. You had to take the meeting. You didn’t have to accept. That was the freedom I gave you.”
“You pushed me.”
“It was a lot of money. Hell yeah I pushed you. I can’t apologize for that. I won’t. That amount of money is kind to me but you get most of it. After one big deal like that you start having freedoms and opportunities you didn’t otherwise have open to you.”
“Okay. Yeah. I get it. Stop being sober. I don’t like it.” My cellphone rings and I glance at the number. “My brother.” I down my champagne. “I have to yell at him over something personal. Pretend you’re not here.” I answer the call. “Finally, you call?”
“What the hell, Cat?” Reid demands.
“What the hell yourself. What does that mean?”
“I saw the press release,” he says. “You’re writing a book with Reese Summer. The man is suing me, Dad, and Uncle Rudolf and he set the Feds’ sights on us.”
“What?”
“You don’t know. Well at least there is that. That man is trying to destroy us.”
“Reese is a criminal attorney,” I say. “He wouldn’t be suing you.”
“His firm is, and he’s damn sure involved in this. He’s representing the man they sued on behalf of.”
And now I know why Gabe asked about Reese. “What’s the client’s name?”
“Casey Allen.”
I know the name. I know all of Reese’s cases. “What did you do, Reid?” I demand, despite knowing more than I want him to know I know.
“I have to be in the wrong? Is that it?”
“What are you accused of doing?”
“Securities fraud,” he says.
“Please tell me you didn’t do it.”
“Fuck you, Cat.” He hangs up.
I look at Liz. “I have to go.”
“You’ve been drinking. I’ll get you where you need to go.”
“Believe me,” I say. “I’ve never been so sober in my life.”
I grab my coat and pull it on, and then snap up my briefcase and purse and rush for the door. Reese is now involved in a lawsuit against my family that could ruin them. It doesn’t matter that he didn’t do it intentionally which he didn’t. I know he didn’t but it’s a problem both personally and legally for both of us. It might even be the end of us.
Chapter thirty-six
Reese
I’m sitting at my desk with Maria standing next to it when Cat comes charging in without warning, her coat half off one shoulder, and her briefcase and purse on the other. “I need to talk to you now. Alone.”
Cat’s intensity is impossible to miss and for once Maria has nothing smart to say. “I’m leaving,” she says, hurrying around Cat and shutting the door.
Cat sets her things on the guest chair. “Casey Allen.”
That’s the last thing I expect her to say at this very moment. “What about him?”
“You filed a lawsuit on his behalf.”
