Sometime during the night, Helen committed suicide.
One week later, an ex-convict caught committing a burglary confessed to the murder of Helen’s stepmother.
The next day, David quit Jesse Quiller’s firm. Quiller had tried to dissuade him.
“It wasn’t your fault, David. She lied to you and—” “That’s the point. I let her. I didn’t do my job.
I didn’t make sure she was telling me the truth. I wanted to believe her, and because of that, I let her down.”
Two weeks later, David was working for Kincaid, Turner, Rose & Ripley.
“I’ll never be responsible for another person’s life,” David had sworn. And now he was defending Ashley Patterson.
Chapter Fourteen
At ten o’clock the following morning, David walked into Joseph Kincaid’s office.
Kincaid was signing some papers and he glanced up as David entered.
“Ah. Sit down, David. I’ll be through in a moment.” David sat down and waited.
When Kincaid had finished, he smiled and said, “Well! You have some good news, I trust?” Good news for whom? David wondered.
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