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“I read it, yes. But I want you to tell me because you actually spoke to him.”

“He said she disappeared from the shelter. He tried to find her. Marin started acting strangely and tried to get him to be with her again. He told her no. A few days later, they found the girl’s body behind some empty warehouse, and he saw Marin with a trash bag walking out to a dumpster after school. He followed her and looked inside the bag. There were bloody clothes.”

“And where are those clothes now?” Kieran asked before Carina could.

“He left them there. He was scared. He lived with Marin and worried that she’d kill him too. He never said anything to anyone. That night, she also showed up in his room again, and, well…”

“I’m sorry; you’re saying my sister killed his girlfriend, and then, a few days after this horrible tragedy he struggled with so much that he told literally no one about it, he slept with her? The same girl who killed his girlfriend and dumped bloody clothes in a dumpster?”

“I’m just telling you what he told me.”

“How did the girl die?” Carina asked.

“Stabbed twice.”

“Sexual assault?”

“No, but Marin wouldn’t sexually assault her, would she?”

“Kevin, where’s your actual evidence?” she asked.

“Carina, you’re supposed to be on the state’s side here,” he replied.

“I am. I’m thinking about the fact that you’re about to waste taxpayer dollars taking this to a judge and trying to get it admitted in, but you only have a statement, and that’s it. She was acting strangely and had bloody clothes?”

“In a trash bag,” he added.

“I think of one reason why a girl would have bloody clothes,” Kieran said.

“What?” Kevin asked.

“She might have been on her period and wasn’t prepared. It happens,” Kieran suggested. “She probably thought her clothes were ruined and tossed them at the school. She’s told me her foster parents weren’t always nice to her. She might have been afraid of them and didn’t want to take the ruined clothes home.”

“Come on… That’s a stretch,” he replied before he picked up his coffee mug and took a sip.

“So is this bullshit case,” Kieran stated. “You have no evidence that she did this, but you’re convinced.”

“She’s killed two other people, Kieran.”

“Allegedly,” she repeated. “She’s innocent until proven guilty. That’s how it’s supposed to work in this country.” Kieran turned to Carina. “They still teach that in law school, don’t they?”

Carina held in her laughter but nodded.

“The guy in Miami; it’s the same thing as Nick May. She was married to both of them. How do you argue that?”

“I don’t. I’m not her attorney. But Frank will,” Kieran said.

“Why am I even here?” Kevin asked. “I came here as a favor, Carina.”

“And I thank you for that,” Carina said. “But you don’t have any credible evidence to get admitted in.”

“I have a sworn–”

“From a boy who, Marin can claim, was interested in her and not the other way around. She told Kieran that he assaulted her by pushing her against a wall and trying to get her to do something she didn’t want to do, Kevin. It’s he said, she said. The judge won’t allow it. It has nothing to do with this case. The girl was stabbed, not shot. And it was outside a warehouse, not in a house that burned. All you have is a statement that she acted strangely.”

“I’ve got to go,” Kevin said as he moved out of the booth.

“Where?”


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