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“I’d say it looks suspicious as hell that the judge sent you here, and there was a murder attempt on you the same day,” Sebastian said, folding his arms judgmentally.
“Can we go to the press with the will?” Connor asked.
“I can leak it to a couple of reporters and let them run with it,” Bert said. “It might even buy us some leverage when the FBI’s results from the limo come in. But unfortunately, nothing’s going to come of it short-term.”
I turned to Connor. “I need to ask you something… in private.”
“I’m feeling pretty good, but I don’t know if I’m up to that,” he joked. I stared him down until he got serious. “How private?”
I looked over at Bert. “You might not want to hear this.”
“Oh God,” Bert muttered, then held up the will. “I’m just going to go read this waaaaaay over there, on the other side of the room.”
Once he was out of earshot, I looked from Sebastian to Johnny to Connor. “I was talking to Eve on the plane ride to La Guardia.”
“And?”
“She suggested something I want you to consider.”
“What?”
“Grant could come in here and break you out.”
Grant Carlson was Eve’s partner, apparently both in a business sense and romantically. He was a billionaire architect – but he also happened to be a cat burglar. That’s what had gotten him in trouble, and why Connor had to loan him a private plane to get out of the U.S.
Connor immediately shook his head. “No.”
“Connor – ”
“No, Lily.”
“You have skinheads trying to kill you in here,” I pleaded with him. “Next it could be gang members, or the Mexican mafia.”
“When I get out of here – and make no mistake, I’m getting out of here soon – I have to run a multi-billion-dollar company,” Connor said. “If I take Grant up on that offer, I become a fugitive. There’s no way I can get out of that. Even when I’m acquitted of the murder charges, they’ll convict me on the escape attempt.”
“We should ask Bert,” Sebastian said.
“Are you serious?” Connor asked, astounded.
“You can’t run your company if you’re dead,” Sebastian pointed out.
“I’m not going to be dead,” Connor said angrily.
“I still say it’s worth asking Bert.”
“FINE – get him over here.”
Sebastian motioned Bert over. “We have a… hypothetical question.”
“Uh oh…”
“If, say, an innocent man were imprisoned… and he escaped…”
“No,” Bert said.
“But let’s say he escaped and then was acquitted of the original crime – ”
“NO.”
