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“So,” I grin. “Am I ordering champagne?—”
“Valerie Siff is dead.”
A cold sensation rips down my spine.
Valerie, as in the spurned wife of the deputy mayor of Montclair.
As in, the cornerstone to our entire defense alibi.
“What the fuck?!” I snarl.
“Double tapped to the head, execution-style,” Gabriel spits. “We are fucked, Alistair.”
“Shit!” I swear, whirling and stopping myself just before I punch the wall. “Judge Hawkins?”
“Heard the news same as me, about five minutes before I walked into her chambers waving that deposition.” He swears. “She’s tossing that as inadmissible now, by the way. Seeing as the prosecution can’t cross examine Valerie anymore.”
“Motherfucker!” I hiss. “How the fuck did anyone find her?”
For obvious reasons, we’ve been putting Valerie up somewhere safe until the trial. It’s a fairly common practice with witnesses in big cases involving the mafia, and it’s hardly the first time we’ve done it.
Nobody but Taylor, Gabriel, and I knew that Valerie was staying under an assumed name at a spa up by Buffalo, New York.
“That’s…” Gabriel exhales slowly. “That’s why I’m calling.”
I barge ahead. “Okay, we need to make a list. Any associates, interns…whoever had access to that information?—”
“We don’t need a list, Alistair,” he growls. “You know who had access to that information. You, me, and Taylor, and we all kept it on absolute lockdown in our offices. No one has access to my office without me present, same goes for Taylor.”
My jaw begins to clench.
“Be very careful what you say next.”
“We’re past that, brother,” he says quietly. “Who had access to your office without you being there?”
“Stop talking.”
“Look past your feelings!” he snaps. “Look past whatever the fuck you’re doing with Eloise and read the fucking writing on the wall!”
“We’re not having this conversation?—”
“The fuck we aren’t!” he barks. “Look at the goddamn facts, Alistair! Like dad would!”
“Fuck you,” I rasp.
“She had access, Alistair.”
“She’s not?—”
“She’s screwed you over before.”
“Shut the fuck up!!!”
“She’s married to Massimo!”
“What the fuck does that have to do with anything!?”
Gabriel sighs heavily. “Hang on, I’m conferencing in Taylor. You need to hear this for yourself.”
