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“Goodnight Averie,” Ray said as he backed out the room.
“Night, Ray.”
A few minutes later Countee came into my office followed by Laila.
“What’s up Count?” I asked while giving him dap.
“Hey Laila,” I said while giving her a quick hug.
They both spoke to Averie then chose a seat.
“What’s going on, Averie?” Count asked.
“As you know, I founded my own law firm. I’m sure you looked into it before I started working with Samuel.”
Countee nodded.
“So, I don’t need to explain the structure. One of my senior litigators scheduled a meeting with Trevor Bell from…”
“Bell, Towers and McIntyre,” Countee finished. “Yes, I know them.”
“She scheduled the meeting without my consent and then played coy when I busted into the meeting. Additionally, my associates went on an astonishing losing streak while I was working on Princeton’s case. I mean this losing streak was so extraordinary that it’s not possible. I believe someone leaked information to our opposing counsel in more than one case. The problem is that I can’t prove it.”
“You believe that your senior Litigator, Caroline Radcliffe is responsible for leaking information and trying to diminish the reputation of your firm?” Laila asked.
“Yes, and I don’t know if she is the only one. It came to my attention because my secretary told me she saw the meeting with Trevor on Caroline’s schedule. I have two more senior litigators, Ruth Berkeley and Shelly Irons. I don’t know if they are involved also. Right now, I can’t trust anyone. I need to get to the bottom of this.”
I made a mental note of every name Averie said. Anyone involved in this is going to feel the heat from every possible direction. She may have her form of justice, but I have mine.
“We will need a list of all your employees, so we can dig into their backgrounds and their accounts. If they are trying to sabotage you, there should be a trail of money,” Countee said while typing on his tablet.
“We can set up the same camera system that we set up in the war room at Valentine Law,” Laila added.
“Count, did you take care of that footage?”
“I did,” Countee smirked.
After Averie and I almost had sex in the war room, I contacted Countee to make sure the footage from the surveillance cameras he’d installed was erased. He made a snide remark about putting it on a drive so Averie and I could watch it later. To which I responded with threats on his life several times before he acquiesced.
The conversation continued while I sat quietly and listened to the game plan. I didn’t like the level of stress this was putting on Averie, but I knew she could handle it. If at any point she couldn’t, I would step in and everyone associated with this would go down.
Averie
I sat next to El on the front row of The Encounter Worship Center. He cleared his schedule to have dinner with my parents and attend Sunday morning worship. Samuel held my hand through a lot of the service. When Pastor DeLucas took the stage, he released my hand so that he could lean forward and rest his forearms on his thighs. He gave Pastor DeLucas his undivided attention.
“Today, I would like to talk to you about words. A word is a unit of language that is a principal carrier of meaning. We use words to communicate both orally and written. When God created the world, he used words. In Genesis we see, ‘and God said,’ then something happened. And God said let there be light. And there was light. He created tangible, living things with his words.
God spoke words with a specific purpose. He knew when the words left his mouth, something was going to happen. Something was going to appear that was not there. Something was going to come to life. He used his words wisely.
In the New Testament, we see another example of the use of words. Jesus used his words to curse a fig tree. He spoke the curse over the tree, the next day it was withered. He didn’t touch it physically. His words touched it. They carried enough power to accomplish their task.
We have been given the same authority here on earth. We have the power of words although most of us have no idea how much weight our words carry.
Think of the children whom we’ve read about or some we’ve known who have taken their own lives because peoplesaidsomething that hurt them. How many of us know people who are no longer friends, married or even family because of something the other personsaid…not something another person did, but said.
Words have power. Words can plant, build-up, encourage, uproot, tear-down and discourage. Sometimes we can do all those things in one sentence.
We have to learn to use the right words at the right times to create the right situations. The bible says that death and life are in the power of the tongue. Your tongue can be the difference between someone living and someone dying.
