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“I agree with the defense. I won’t tolerate games in my courtroom Mr. Leathen, so from this moment forward, anything you need to share with the defense will be done in a timely manner. Do you understand me?” Judge Williams said.
“Yes, Your Honor,” Barry responded.
“In light of this situation, I will give the defense forty-eight hours to review the information you sent to them. Court is adjourned for forty-eight hours.”
He hit his gavel. We all stood until he left the courtroom.
Barry walked over to my table.
“Good to see you, Averie.”
“Good to be seen, Barry. I see not much has changed,” I looked at him from his cheap loafers to his off the rack, black suit.
“This is what you’re doing now, working with crooks and criminals?” He whispered.
“I am working to stop you people from coming after two law-abiding parents,” I smiled.
“You are better than this, Vee.”
“I’m better than you, Barry. How is your wife?” I cocked my head to the side waiting for his answer.
His face turned red, and he moved in closer.
“Everything good over here, Ms. Patterson?”
I didn’t turn to look, but I knew it was Samuel.
“It’s great, Mr. Valentine. Barry and I were just chopping it up about the good old days.”
Barry stepped back.
When I worked for a private law firm, I was voluntold to work with the DA on a couple of cases because they were short staffed and reached out to the private sector for help. I didn’t mind because I’d never had a lot of exposure to criminal law at the time.
Barry was with the DA’s office and took an interest in me. I sat with him on a couple of his big cases. I thought his interest in me was business, but one late night of work, I realized he was looking for more from me. He thought I was the girl that would lay on her back to get ahead. I wasn’t, and I didn’t. He threatened to tell my firm I was not a good fit and I threatened to tell his wife about his sexual advances toward me. He didn’t realize I had the entire incident recorded because I recorded our brainstorming sessions to review them later. He decided to release me to go back to my firm, and I decided to keep the recording just in case.
“Have a good day, Averie.”
“Choke on a dick, Barry,” I smiled and turned my attention to Samuel.
He watched Barry and his team leave the courtroom before he looked at me with concern etched on his face.
“It’s fine,” I smiled to show I wasn’t bothered.
“Is this something we need to discuss?”
“No,” I nodded my head. It didn’t present any type of conflict of interest. The case wouldn’t be affected, so we didn’t need to discuss it.
He nodded and motioned for me to join the group’s discussion behind us.
“What does this break mean?” Deyshonda asked as soon as we joined the conversation.
She had taken my direction and toned down her dress. Instead of head to toe Chanel and Fendi she’d found a cute skirt suit from Calvin Klein, and some Nine West pumps to match.
“It means we have a couple days to go through all the information the Prosecutor has on this case,” Xavier explained. “You both can go home. We will call you if we have questions.”
“You look nice,” I said to Deyshonda as she started in the direction of the door.
“Thank you. It’s not so bad,” she replied as she put the strap of herCoachhandbag in the bend of her arm.
