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When Kal is beside her, she looks at him and starts crying, “It was?—”
He quickly interrupts her, “Self-defense. I know. But right now, we need to make sure you’re okay.”
“What?” She shakes her head clearly confused. “I?—”
Speaking over her, Kal firmly states, “Alice, not here.”
“Alice,” I call to her, and they both look back. When Kal sees me, his lips curl in disgust. “Do not take the fall for someone else.”
Kal’s cool and callous demeanor changes, and he allows his arrogant mask to fall briefly. The look he gives me is murderous. “This is none of your business.”
I step close enough that I don’t need to raise my voice and direct my eyes at Alice. “He’s never been anything but a punk-ass bully; he’ll never be anything else, Alice, but you can do the right thing.”
“Get him the hell out of here,” Kal roars.
“Not in my ER, Seward!” Whit’s friend and co-worker, Laurie, yells.
“She’s my client. I’m not leaving her side.”
“Like hell you aren’t.”
“She’s not to speak to the cops without me,” he spits and then points at Alice. “Not a damn word.”
Officer Burk takes him by the elbow. “Let’s wait outside.”
Laurie looks me over. “I’m guessing you can behave.”
“You’d be guessing correctly, Mrs. Laurie.”
She waves me off and turns, saying, “You could charm the panties off a nun, John Paul, but you’d better be ready for a fight if you think about taking Whit from us.”
Standing in the hall with our backs against the wall, trying to stay out of the way and keep our mouths shut so Laurie doesn’t kick our asses out, too, I look at Marks without saying a word.
He nods. “He’s trying to get her to take the fall.”
“He could be the shooter.”
“Can’t see him getting his hands dirty.” He scrubs a hand over his face. “What a fucking night.”
“You think Kris is gonna make it?”
“Not sure, but if he doesn’t, Alice might be going to prison for murder.”
“She’ll talk. She wanted to talk,” I say, believing that wholly. “He’s covering for someone who would do his dirty work. Right now, Whit is going to worry about the women at the shelter. You think York could find out what’s going on with the residents?”
“She saw me in the parking lot, pulled a U-turn, and called. She’s on her way there now.”
“She gonna look at the footage?”
He nods. “The ones the board knows about and the one in the back she had fixed and has running on a separate feed that they don’t know about.”
“Smart woman.”
He winks. “Your wife’s idea.”
“Genius woman.”
My phone vibrates in my pocket, and I pull it out and look at the screen. It’s a message from Chloe in the group message chain.
