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“I don’t know who told me! Okay? I was receiving anonymous text messages telling me how Averie had been boasting around the office about beating me. They told me she called me demeaning names and told stories of me wanting her, but she turned me down.”
“What do you mean anonymous?”
“I mean they never left a name and the number traced back to a burner phone.”
“Hearing that a woman boasted about beating you caused you to go into a fit of rage?”
“What? No! I didn’t…I don’t…I can’t remember anything about last night. I woke up in the hospital chained to the bed. The detectives told me what I’d done.”
“Lying piece of shit…” I mumbled.
My voice startled Barry. He hadn’t looked into the corner until now.
“El,” Countee scolded.
I folded my arms across my chest and willed myself to stay seated.
I should have thrown him out of the window and watched his body hit the concrete below.
“I…I was angry because I’d gotten a text message saying that Averie was going to go to my boss about a misunderstanding we’d had some years ago. She was planning on getting me disbarred for improper conduct. I went to the bar to get a drink, and that’s all I remember.”
“Did you speak to anyone at the bar?”
“Not that I remember.”
“Did your drink taste funny?”
“No…not that I can remember.”
“You nearly killed Ms. Patterson last night and guess what, everything you heard was a lie. You were the last person on her mind. She never mentioned your name in the office, and she wasn’t coming for your license. You were played.”
“How did you know she would be in the building alone?”
I had to ask. It was taking Count too long to get to that question.
“I just said I didn’t remember!” He raised his voice.
I jumped from my corner and tried to get to him, but Countee caught me.
“Come on, man!”
I slapped Countee’s hands off of me and went and stood in the corner. I wanted to put my hands on this guy so bad.
“You have no recollection of how you managed to get to her floor in her building?”
He nodded his head but kept his eyes on me.
“Where is the phone you were receiving the text messages on?”
“I don’t know.”
“What did you mean when you said that Averie may keep her little firm? You said that to us before the trial began.”
I’d just remembered that he’d made that comment when he told us they were amending Roc’s charges.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I was just goading her.”
“Which is it? You don’t know, or you were goading her?” Countee asked.
