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The doorto the meeting room opened, and a guard walked in first followed by Reggie. A couple years after I was released from prison, Reggie was moved to a minimum- security prison closer to Saint Louis. He taught a GED class for the inmates on the maximum-security side of the prison, and he ran the prison newspaper. He was due up for parole soon. The wife of the officer who was killed had reached out to him to let him know she would support his release since he wasn’t the one who actually pulled the trigger. We were hoping her support would make the decision to release him, easy for the parole board.
He sat down at the table then the guard removed his handcuffs and left the room.
“What’s up Sun?”
“You got it, god.”
We embraced and sat back down at the table.
“How is everything going with Roc’s case?”
I took a deep breath and sat back in my chair.
“I don’t know if I can win this and I’ve never felt this way before even when all the cards were stacked against me. This DA has a hard-on for Roc and Coco, and he’s not stopping until he has thoroughly fucked them. Excuse the expletives, but that’s the best way to describe it.”
“I hear you. Have you talked to Roc about the possibility of this not working out?”
“No, I haven’t. I was sitting under the Arch the other day trying to think this through…”
“What’s her name?”
I looked at him confused.
“Excuse me?”
“What’s her name? The one who got you to sit still and think. Only a woman will make a man do that.”
I chuckled.
“Her name is Averie, and she is the lawyer we hired to work on the case with us. She’s stubborn, sassy and brilliant.”
“Beautiful?”
“Breathtaking.”
I never mixed words when I talked to my father. He would have known anyway.
“Humph…”
“What?”
“Nothing. Continue with the conclusions you came to at the Arch grounds.”
“I feel like the case is too perfect, you know. The witness list is airtight. The evidence was all bagged and tagged correctly even the stuff they found in Coco’s desk is solid. We saw the video surveillance of the police discovering it. Now the DA has a witness. We don’t know who it is or what they have to say but whatever they have told the DA has made the lead on the case confident enough to amend the charges.”
I continued to go through more of the evidence the DA had while Reggie listened intently.
“Alright, two things.” He said after I finished. “One, nothing is perfect. So, the DA’s case most certainly is not. You are too close to this case for you to see what’s in front of you. The smoking gun is there. I’m not a lawyer so I can’t tell you what it is, but I bet if you give Averie the space she needs she will find it. I know she will because you are partnering with her, so she must be smart. Let her handle the case, and you fall back. I know that’s hard to hear and probably even more hard to do but it’s important for the family. The best way to help Roc at this point is to pass the controls to Averie. Second thing, life is too short to be attracted to a woman and play like the attraction is not there. I understand your need to keep things professional while you are working on the case, but if she can get you to do something as mundane as sit and look at a dirty river, then she is something special. Special ones only come around once so don’t miss it.”
“Pop, I’m not even think…”
“Yes, you are. You are just pretending not to. Now go and do what I said. I will see you in a couple weeks.”
“Yes, Sir.”
Averie
Are you busy? – Valentine
